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December 30, 2007
I Have Been Awake for 24 Hours
I woke up at 7am GMT. It is now 11pm PST. There is, for those of you playing at home, an eight hour time difference. Subtract eight from the GMT time to get the corresponding hour for the Pacific Time Zone.
In the between times, twixt awakening and now, I rode a London cab, a train and two airplanes, picked up my checked luggage twice, went through two security checks (because apparently the one they do at Gatwick isn't enough) and immigration once. Then I rode in a car through blowing snow over broken snow floor for a couple of hours. (That part was especially fun.)
Oh yes, and I watched Casablanca.
But now I'm completely unpacked, the plants are watered and the cats are fed, their litter has been changed--thanks, Dave--and they are relaxing into having us home again. (There was some yelling at first, once they'd welcomed us back and then felt comfortable telling us how they really felt about the whole abandoning them for ten days thing. Even now they're all still fairly chatty.)
And just exactly why was I at Gatwick? And travelling by so many different types of transport? For those of you who didn't know, Dave and I left for London, England on December 20. It was a ten day celebration of our 40th birthdays and tenth wedding anniversary. We got back home about 90 minutes ago. It was a fantastic trip. I'll tell you about it (and share pictures) over the next several days. In the meantime, however, I need to get to bed.
Posted by sally at December 30, 2007 11:00 PM
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