Monday May 7th:
Dublin Airport to return to US
The Dublin airport has two sets of security if you are flying to the US. The benefit of this is that you can go straight home or to your connecting flight when you arrive landside without having to grab your bags, go through customs with them, and then recheck them. Once you go through the US pre-screening, you can't go back to the main part of the airport.
My experience:
1. You scan your passport into the machine and it collects your info on the screen and asks you to verify it's accuracy. My info was incorrect. The machine just rescanned and made the same error... so there was no way to actually fix it there. (The error was Country of Birth. I was born in the UK and it kept saying I was born in the US.
2. They take your picture and print off another slip of paper you have to carry through with you. They said line your face up with the box, and I am short. So I'm trying to step on my tippy toes to get my face in that damn box. Then the lady pointed out I could have taken a step back to get it right. Whoops.
3. My boarding pass had a code on it that meant I was randomly selected for additional screening. I am not joking when I say that body search felt pretty intense. It was not a light pat down and there was nearly no area that escaped untouched (they can't touch bear skin. They wear gloves.) I was wearing a dress, which is what I think made it feel worse. She felt both my legs and at one point thought she felt something on my thigh. (Sometimes I wonder why I even bring the thunder.)
4. The flight was delayed 4 hours. :(
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