(If this post sounds a bit incoherent, please be advised that I’m working on very little sleep and am in the middle of a three-hour-long flight to Charlotte with a cute but wiggly little girl sitting in her dad’s lap across the aisle from me…I can’t stop looking over and smiling at her!)

When you fly first class, not only do you get to check in through the shorter line at the airport but the guy who checks you in wears a sport coat and a tie, too, while the other service people are just wearing sweaters and such. How fancy!

The thing about these Barrett family reunions is that the Barrett family is so huge, they basically take over whatever town in which we’re having our reunion. The first one I went to was in Jackson Hole, WY. After everyone arrived and had greeted one another, we’d spend some free time shopping and roaming around the town of Jackson. It was not uncommon at all to see family members in every block of the town! The same thing happened in Hilton Head at the last reunion four years ago!

So this morning we packed up the car, dropped the dogs off at dad’s and then he took us to the airport. Since we flew First Class, we got to breeze through check in and security, and then wandered around the terminal for a while, buying gossip magazines and whatnot. All of a sudden, we ran into five members of a local branch of the Barrett family! Their plane was leaving an hour before ours (we like to be wayyyy early to the airport when we fly), so we sat and chatted with them for a while at their gate. While we were visiting, lo and behold, my inlaws, Frank and Carolyn arrived! That’s just the beginning of a week-long Barrett Invasion! Look out, Amelia Island, the Barretts are coming!!!!

P.S. We had a fairly tasty BBQ chicken sandwich for lunch on the plane and they gave us these adorably tiny little salt and pepper shakers that lock together on the side. The S&P containers are probably just under and inch tall. I love tiny things like that so I didn’t use mine and instead stuffed it in my carry on to take home and show to the kitties! LOL