Typical (Ellen) Situation

Phoenix Airport, originally uploaded by reasonenoughtocelebrate.

I spent a lot of time trying not to cry today. Saying goodbye to Elisa this morning was so ridiculously hard.. and taking my last walk around campus just broke my heart.

There were moments of laughter though -- whether my parents meant for there to be or not.

Me: Have you ever seen Ellen's HBO comedy specials? Every time I walk on one of these moving sidewalks at the airport, I honestly start to laugh.
Aunt Greta: Why?
Me: She talks about how when you walk on them while they're moving... you feel like a bionic woman! You are just WHIPPIN' past everyone. ....and then there are the people that just ride them around the airport, never taking a step forward. She jokes that it "makes you wonder how they ever get anywhere."

We both laughed and then simultaneously my aunt and I looked behind us.

Its hard to see -- but my mom is the blue dot in the middle of this picture -- way far down the walkway behind us.

Apparently my mom and dad are moving-sidewalk-riders. We had to wait for them to be carried across the terminal, before we could move on to our gate.