Saturday, May 17, 2008

Airport security: The Good, The Bad, The Destroyed

When DJ and I went para sailing, we took a water camera with us to catch the amazing views. I also took some fun pictures of us while we were swimming in the ocean. Needless to say, we were looking forward to the beautiful pictures. Since DJ's work has a photo shop, I asked him to take the camera to get it developed while he was at work...

Pause. Lets back up the story a little bit. The last night of the cruise you must pack your suitcases and pass them to the crew to store for departure the next morning. I was feeling rushed packing everything and making sure it would all fit. I also had to leave all our shampoos and such in our carry on. Which I didn't want to do for the airport. So I was all worried about that and getting everything back in the suitcases and which stuff I wanted to carry on the flight with us and what needed to be checked. Crazy!

OK, back to the photos... DJ took the camera like I asked and had it developed. The tech developed them only to find there was NO PICTURES on the camera. WHAT??? I must have packed the water camera in the checked luggage. The photo tech seems to think that there were no photos because it went through x-ray checkpoints that were not safe for photos. AAAAHHH! I was so careful to make sure everything was in its right place, but the camera. All our photos destroyed by THE AIRPORT SECURITY! Who is to blame: airport security or just silly me? We still have our digital camera photos, but most of the good ones where on the water camera. :( And what stinks even more is that we had to buy that camera from the island shops and it was not cheap! Oh well, lesson learned for the next time!

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