Angels In The Air

On our flight to Santiago last week, there were also many wonderful people who showed kindness to us and served us. The kids felt famous. I went to buy a snack, and when I came back the line had formed to board the plane and we had missed our chance to board early as a mother with small children. So we waited, and everyone in the line was looking at and smiling at my cute 7 kids on the floor.

Ethan would ask "Why is everyone staring at us?" and then the rest of my kids look up and see everyone staring, then the look at each other wondering what is going on. I just smiled and continued to answer the questions "Todos suyos?" (All yours?) "Si, siete!" (Yes, Seven!)

Puerta 31 to Santiago, Chile! On the flight to Chile, just like on the hour flight to Panama, there had to be an adult sitting by my children, in case of an emergency, to help them with their oxygen masks. So the stewardesses who were responsible to enforce that rule took care of it by asking other passengers to change seats and switch things around and volunteer to come sit between my kids. I was really glad on the flight from San Jose to Panama, to see Ethan conversing very cutely with Marco in the row in front of me. After some time visiting, he told Marco "You're better at English than I am at Spanish." Marco taught Ethan how to say Salt Lake in Spanish - "Lago Salado". On the flight to Chile, Ethan and Hyrum sat by this sweet guy, who when asked where he was from, teased "from a galaxy far far away" and that just got Eth and Hy both so excited that they were obviously sitting by a Star Wars fan, that they teased and played and were noisy little pests for a few minutes - the guy asked them if they were monsters! He was so sweet though, he even let them sleep on him!! I don't think many grown ups would have tolerated a 6 hour flight like that. And he let me take a picture of it! He definitely wins the angel award and I'll be sure to point out this kindness he showed us on judgement day if he needs any help getting past the pearly gates.

Think he'll ever know that there is this unnamed picture of him posted on the internet somewhere? Ethan and Hyrum were both embarrassed when I showed them this picture. :)