Three Monkeys, Three Typewriters, Two Days

I'm afraid it actually gets harder when the kids are a bit older. Very small children are at least fine once you get on the plane, they just want to feed and sleep. But when they're older they want to run around, and sometimes they'll demand to get off.

After that it gets easier again :-).

This last time Arlan definitely wanted to walk about a bit. He's still small enough that the area in front of our seats was OK for him. If we can stick to getting bulkhead seats, we'll be ok for a few more months there...

FWIW Heathrow seem to have stopped doing the separate laptop thing, at least in terminal 3.

Yeah, international travel is a different matter entirely. In fact, the best security experience I've had in the last several years was in Ben Gurion. No silly liquids stuff. No taking off shoes. Nothing about laptops. Had a pleasant conversation with a young woman while dropping off my luggage at the X-ray machine.

Of course they pay better than the TSA. A lot better. And I bet I would have had a worse experience if I looked more like an Arab... But we could adopt some of the good features without the ethnic profiling.

I'd pay $10 more per flight for a better screening experience, any day.

You are moving to Boston?

The whole procedure is a waste of time if you ask me, or at least significant overkill.

Do you go through any of these things before visiting public places or before getting on a bus or train? Nope.

In two years from now, security will check if the baby is a real one and will run him/her through the scanner too...

bzbarsky back in boston? bogus!

Not to mention emmas!

Whoa! bens! Long time no see. ;)