Snow Globe for Jenna

So I’m here at the Lincoln Airport in Springfield, Illinois and I wanted to bring Jenna a Lincoln souvenir. She’s always kind of been a history buff and a few years ago we came here to see the Lincoln sites and she loved it.

Of course on that trip we were going out to dinner during a storm and a strong wind picked up a huge construction site tube that rolled over our car and smashed it to pieces. So all in all that was an exciting trip.

Anyway, at the airport gift shop they had a cool snow globe with a bust of Lincoln in it. Looked like a winner to me so I bought it.

Well, the gift shop is outside of security because there are no shops in this little airport within the secured area-vending machines only.

So I made the purchase which was easy. Then, due to federal regulations the lady who runs the gift shop has to temporarily close the gift shop, take the snow globe, because it contains more than three ounces of liquid, through security and walk it with me to a TSA agent and verify that this is indeed a snow globe that I purchased from her and it has not been out of her hands.

I am thankful at this moment that while oil is ruining our shores and the economy is in the toilet that at least we, as Americans, are protected from snow globes in the air.