Here I go again. Flying another 24 hours. Am I crazy or what?! I feel a stomach bug coming on....I hope it's nothing.......yurk........ Bags are all packed, almost ready to go...just need a quick shower and we are off. I am hopping I get a row to myself again from Sydney to San Francisco. I need to set my watch back too for the time it is at home. I have just gotten the hang of this time zone and change and poof I have to go back. Isn't that the way it goes? I am sad about leaving here.
This trip did me good. For the first time in over 10 years I was able to get out of mommy mode and do things just for me, not having to worry about everyone and everything on planet earth. I know now that I need to get away from time to time to recharge my batteries. This is something I plan on doing for myself from now on. I thought that this kind of thinking is self centered and selfish and just plain WRONG. But if you don't get away once in a while...what happens? You are tired all the time, you are angry all the time, frustrated and depressed. I don't want to be that way. For all of you who are reading......get away ASAP. It doesn't have to be 10,000. miles away and not for as long as I did, but the point is.....YOU need it. Maybe a 3 day weekend, no phones, no kids, no worries. You will feel 100% better about yourself, about your life. Ok All done preaching.....now DO IT!
CHEERS!
my flowers are still beautiful. I wish I could bring them with me.
Ok the flight home was uneventful. I didn't get a window seat, I was in the middle on the ailse. There were two empty seats then a guy on the other end. He was upset and crying and drinking...a lot until the flight attendent cut him off. He finally went to sleep. I didn't get much sleep on the way back but the trip seemed shorter. We got into San Francisco late so I was worried I would miss my flight to Baltimore. I had to get my bags and go through customs first. And of course my flight was on the other side of the airport...AGAIN! I did make it in time, barely. From there, it was another 5 hours home. I had so many feelings running through me. Sadness, that it's going to be a long time before I see Dez again, happiness that I was going to see my little family again. Dread about going back to work, *wink* Fatigue, all I wanted to do was sleep sleep sleep. Contentment that I did something so huge and this will be something I can say...I did that. Gratitude to Dez, because with out her, this trip would not have been possible.
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Home
I had a great time and you couldn't ask for a better hostess than Dez. She is da bomb! I will miss her terribly but I am coming away with some great memories. And of course there is talk about meeting again but in Honolulu...... 
It's a few years away yet but we wanted the kids to be older and time to save up for it. It's the halfway mark for both of us, so no more 24 hour flights. hehehehehehe
I have photos that are being developed and some that need to be scanned. Soon!