Chris came to bed. Three is only a little later than his usual bedtime.

I woke up, feeling him look at me. I sleepily felt around to give him a kiss.

He said, “Something important has happened.”

“What is it?”

“The British have captured 21 people who were planning a terrorist attack. They were going to use liquid explosives on flights to America.”

“Wow. I’m really glad they caught them.”

” Well, they are not sure they caught everybody. All flights from the UK are grounded. Heathrow is totaly shut down, and they say that you can’t take carry-on luggage with you anymore. Only a wallet, and no CD players or cell phones orlaptops. Not even water.”

“No water?”

“Yeah, because the plan was to use liquid explosives. They can’t even carry car keys with them, because the car keys trasmit signals”

“This is scary.”

“Don’t worry baby, we are not flying anywhere. Not for a month, and I don’t think that the terrorist will target Bozeman. But that probably means that when we go to Germany next year, we will not make any stopovers in London.”

“Man. I bet all the business people will travel to somewhere else first, and then take a short hop to London. They aren’t going to want to travel without their laptops for that long.”

“That would add a lot of time to the travel. But they were talking about that on the news. That people could fly to France and then take the chunnel.”

“That’s going to have a big impact on tourism for Britain. Wow.”

We eventually fell asleep again.