SAT Airport

I just returned home from a quick weekend in San Antonio. It was a last minute trip, but I had a great time. i can't remember if i have previously discussed the SA Airport, but i will do so here and you can all just ignore it if you've read it before.

Pros:
1. Las Palapas IN THE AIRPORT. Wow. For those of you who dont know. Las Palapas is the only real competition (in most of our minds) to Taco Cabana when you want some tacos. It's a local chain. I guess there is also Taco House, which is phenom, but is not a chain. Anyway, there is a Las Palapas in the airport (Term 2) which is just great and really makes my day. This same spot in the terminal used to have a Fuddruckers (phenomenal! they even had the pump cheese!).

2. Pretty Small, meaning you never have to like.....walk on 12 miles of moving walkways to get where you're going

3. not too far from our house

4. you can fly directly to lots of places in mexico. and from my experience, mexican airlines have GREAT food.

Cons: (take a seat....theres a few)
1. See #2 above. SMALL. while sometimes this is nice, it's usually pretty annoying. There are very few cities that fly directly to SA, so there is almost always a connection involved.

2. baggage takes forever. i think this is just a constant problem....no need to explain

3. terminal 1 REEKS of cinnabonn. it's really overwhelming.

4. terminal 1 has a looooooooong uphill ramp that you have to walk up to get to the gates (this is the round terminal for those of you who are in the know)

5. no premier lines for security. i know this is a particular pet peeve of mine. my mother actually said he hates standing in line with people (like me) who bitch about having to stand with the 'commoners'. so if you're ever in line with my mom, dont complain about the lack of status lanes :)

6. they are doing some work on the baggage area for term 1 and the passenger pick up lines are a MESS. you wont even believe it, so i wont try to explain.

7. i think they've been 'expanding' the airport for roughly 20 years. improvements are visible, but you really have to look.

Celebrity Spottings:
well there aren't a whole lot of celebs who live in SA (and i would assume that most of them would take private planes if at ALL possible). but i did see 1 once. this is so embarassing i can't beleive i'm even counting it. did anyone watch that show on MTV about 'little people'? and there was the blonde one who was kind of skanky but pretty attractive and watned to be an actress? yeah, i saw her. later i found out she performed at carmen electra's bachelorette party as a 'little person stripper'. so yeah, that's all i got for SA celebs seen at airport.