*welcome to europe...*

Do I look like a terrorist to you?

My sister-- 22 years old, flying alone to Europe to visit us-- got detained in London Heathrow yesterday because of a suspected terror plot. Pretty much they found a suspect piece of luggage in terminal 4 -- the terminal she was arriving in-- and so they froze all incoming and outgoing flights. From what we know- she was herded outside with several thousand people and they scanned each person before allowing them back into the building to rebook their flights. I found out that her flight was cancelled before I left to the airport -luckily. But we didn't hear from her personally until about 6 hours AFTER she was supposed to be on flight to Zurich.

So at this point she has a rescheduled flight for later today and they put her up in a hotel room last night, but we'll have to wait for the inside story until she gets here. Of course the kids were saying, "when does Aunt Hillery get here?" a million times. I just told them the airport was broken and that seemed to work. Let's hope no more "mysterious packages" appear!