Cary and Char Plus One!

it's nice to be back at home. From the smoke free restaurants and the evidence of more Asians who don't give you furtive looks...those sideway glances that beg of contact yet are too afraid to do so.

We took the long way home. The freakin' 16 hour one. 8.5 hours to Detroit from Paris. 4 hours from Detroit to San Francisco. the 2 hour layover in Detroit. Someone asked us why we didn't take the direct 10 hour flight. Well, it was out of budget. We were pretty delirious towards the end of the night to be honest. We started quoting supertroopers (I want a 1 liter of cola), talking about what kind of food we want next (again we go back to sushi), and how good it's going to feel to take a shower.

My stomach issues didn't resolve themselves in Rome. The severe upset stomach came back on the plane (pretty fresh, huh), and I was making return trips to the toilet like there was no tomorrow. I ate a meal at home, and sadly i was leary of the aftereffects.

Cary on the other hand came home and passed out after eating. Straight up. i had to get through Lost because I had to know! It was almost 2Am by the time I went to sleep, but at the very least I knew what was going on.

For now I feel like the walking dead. Someone who is clearly exhausted, wondering if I can make it through my work retreat tomorrow, and after checking the 225 emails I got over the vacation from work, if I have time to work it out with everyone who wants my time. It was nice to have my own sense of time over the last few weeks, and I'm glad to have been able to do that, but like all vacations you need one from one, right?

So it's 8:30 in the morning, and I'm going to catch up with Heroes now. thank god for DVRS.

Rome postcards were went on Wednesday (sorry, lagging)...so check your boxes in a week!

char 

Posted by Char at 08:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Packin' A, man. We have been getting ready to get out of dodge, and along with that always goes my incredible stress and insomnia that goes along with it.

I'm a pretty anal packer, and over the years I've gotten damn good at it: what to bring, what not to bring, what to not forget, what I can just get there, etc. It's fun getting ready and all, but it's a pain in the ass to bring it all together.

Last night I bought the quart bags for our carry-on liquids. Man, they're small. Oh well, I luckily have travel size lotions cause I just cannot get ashy! Also, I picked up more of the gallon bags (that's MORE like it!) and started labeling what goes in them. Cary's looking at me like I'm crazy, and I think he got overwhelmed and just passed out early. I stayed up, printed up the TSA list of what to pack and what not to pack. What a nerd. I printed all the postcard labels to my peeps who are on my must-get-a-postcard list.

Tonight is probably the point at which I line up my outfits and figure out what the weather is like so I can pack accordingly. I'll probably need to do one more stop at REI or Target.

At any rate, we'll be posting from Europe here, so you can 'come along with us!' and we'll also be posting pictures not here on the site, but probably on Flickr so you can get a look at the world through our eyes.

It's great that we can get away together, and we haven't vacationed together since our honeymoon almost two years ago. It's also his birthday which is nice...what a way to turn 30!

 If you want to ask us questions or whatever, please feel free to put them in the comments! Thanks and we'll see you on the other side of the world!

Char 

Posted by Char at 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)