airport mayhem!

what a fun morning!
today we flew from Coolangatta to Cairns! and since we have already made the flight from calgary to sydney you would think we are pros at traveling by plane so today really should have been a walk in the park for us, sadly it was a whole other story!
it all started with relatively smart thinking! we should lock the laptop bag just in case, cus you never know at the airport! and put the key somewhere safe so that it is not in the same place as the laptop bag! naturally we put it in our big bags. then we checked in, easy enough!, and finally it was time to go through security! yaya we know the drill! shoes off, belt in the bucket and take laptop out of bag and put in seperate container!.... wait a minute.... we locked the laptop bag!!! and worse of all we put the key in the other bag which at that very moment was being loaded onto the plane!!!
we successfully locked ourselves out of the laptop bag!! crap!!!
so that left us running all over the airport trying to find a security guard who might have somehting to break open the lock! naturally when you are looking for a security guard you find none!! how is that always the case! sheesh we must have looked for some one for 10 minutes, constantly asking people who work there were they can be found and constantly being pointed in the different direction! finally we went back to the security gates and asked one of the people working at the metal detectors, turns out they don't like being asked if they could open your bag for you, i guess they think we might have somethign fishy in there like a bomb! well next thing we know we are being pushed into a small room off to the side and sat in front of a table! three huge security gaurds come in(well we found them at least!) and just look at us... we jsut started sweating bullets! then catie tried to speak saying we accidently looked ourselves out of our bag but the first big bad security guard stop her just by holding up his finger. then the second moved around the table and nelt down in front of us, and said "we can do this the easy way or the hard way!" i kid you not! it was like out of the movies! so i said "easy! easy!!" the third big duffes just laughed and then opened the door and 2 security dogs were brought into the room! then took the bag from catie and held it out to the dogs the first dog sniffed it and looked away but the second dog sniffed it and started barking!!! oh shit!! the weed! nah just kidding catie desided she was hungry and stuffed a beef jerky in the bag!!! so the dog must have been really hungry!!! but the security guards thought it was something else so they brought in the bomb squad and took the bag into another room leaving us alone with the three security guards... awkward!!!!!!
i tried explaining again but the damn first security guard held up his finger again so we just sat in silence....
finally the bomb squad come out and whispered in the third security guards ear then left...
they brought the bag out and put it infront of us. "your free to go" thank god!!!!!
thank god we were early for our flight or im sure we would have missed it!!!!!!!
good times at the coolangatta airport


so at what point during that story did you realize i was lying? the security guards in the room? the security dogs? or the bomb squad?
to be honest we didn't get taken anywhere the security girl by the metal detector had a nail file that she stuck into the zipper and made the bag open! easy as that! but wasn't the first story better!!!
anyways we are now at cairns and staying at the nomads beach house which is so nice! and it is so hot here! unbelievable!

B and C