Dear Kid,

You can learn a lot at the airport (although you might not always want to). Here are 10 things I learned at the airport on our most recent voyage.

1. Apparently overalls are a thing.
2. Teenage gymnasts can be very dramatic at 5:30am.
3. More people than you’d think take pillows with them on flights (and most of the pillows aren’t travel pillows).
4. The majority of the pillow carriers are not teenage gymnasts.
5. There are people who share waaaaay too much personal information with complete strangers waaaaay too loudly.
6. Your mother is not one of those people.
7. Not everyone can pull off green hair. (This of course does not stop people from trying.)
8. Beads in beards is also a thing (but not in a good way).
9. Nobody sells decaf at the airport at 6am (I had already had my requisite 6 gallons of the real stuff, but I was cold.)
10. There are a lot of miles in the airport. I walked all of them.

Bonus: Best line from a flight attendant: Please return your seat to the most uncomfortable position possible.

Love, Mom