We're Baaaaaaaaack

We arrived back in Heathrow on Thursday afternoon. Uneventful flight, although we were upgraded to Business. It makes a huge difference. I told someone it is still a long flight, you still feel like you have been hit by a truck. The only difference is with Business Class it feels as if you have been hit by only a light pick-up truck instead a semi, tracker trailer thing.

Same London, same weather - rainy, cold, dark. It was nice to see Chizz again. The apartment looked the same, although with Chizz living there alone it was incredibly neat, almost eerily so. Everything in exactly the right place, the hand towels just so on the bathroom rack, very, very OCD. The fridge made the kids laugh - a quart of milk, various salad dressing/condiments, a block of cheddar cheese and 6 beers. Quite the bachelor fridge.

We had a great summer in California. Did most of the things we wanted to do plus more; saw family, shopping, swim team, shopping, bbqs almost every night, shopping, red wine in the back yard, shopping, swimming in the backyard pool,shopping, hot tubbing, shopping, wedding, shopping, water park, shopping,Disneyland, shopping, San Francisco, shopping, Mexican food, shopping, dinner at the Brewery, shopping, visiting with friends, shopping. I am tired just thinking about it. It went by so, so, so fast. Next year I will be more prepared - I won't sleep.

Snake & I had an interesting discussion about London v. California. Why is it, he wondered, that when we are in London we refer to California as "home", but when we were in California we talked about London being "home". It is true, we do that and I am not sure why that is - we consider both places home. And that makes us lucky indeed.