Love to hear that other kids are walking thru airports with life jackets and snorkel stuff on their backs. We gave our son (a 19 yr old big kid) new snorkel gear for Christmas. It came with a backpack style carrying case and the first thing he said was "cool! I'm just going to use this as my carry-on!" <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />