I Admit, I Have Already Been Cruising Travel Sites!

Top: Keith at the Prime Meridian

Bottom: My watch set exactly to Greenwich Mean Time.

Its amazing how wonderful it is to be home again but also a little, well, boring. Boring can be good though. I finished two books since our return home, the last of which was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I echo the Brits and say "Brilliant!" Lots of twists and turn up to the last couple pages. Crazy. I finished it at 4.45 this morning. Could not put it down. John, do not block my stuff. I promise I will not tell you how it ends!

Anyways, there are a few souvenirs Jenn left off the list that are worth pointing out:

• Two ridiculously priced beach towels from Rome. #$%! Romans!


• Hand stitched table runner from Hungary.


• One Communist coffee mug reading "Wake up! Drink coffee! Work for the state!" To be used at my new public school teaching job only.


• One hand carved wooden box from Poland.


• 1 beautiful set of hand-painted liquor glasses. Now we drink in style.


• 5 sets of necklaces and earings from Italy and Poland. (Okay, only 2 belong to Jenn! Others are gifts or orders.)


• 1 toe ring to replace the one Jenn had ripped off in a current pool in Budapest.


• 3 soccer jerseys because they're crazy cheap in Eastern Europe.


• 750 ml. of Hungarian Palinka (to be nursed over time).


• 2 x 350 ml. of Teacher's Scotch Whiskey (seriously, how could we resist that!)


• Several books (Us? Buy books? Noooo!)


• Various pencils and bookmarks that Jenn can use at school to make the kids dream (we hope).


• Cool shopping bags from all over Europe.


• Amazing memories to last a lifetime.

I have had a few complaints about too much reading and not enough pictures. Well, to that I echo Jenn's statement that if you think you can upload pictures in Polish better than us, go right bloody ahead. Its amazing the difference in computers everywhere. Also, computer keyboards are different in every country. And, by the way, some of you should have left picture books behind long ago!

So we can't decide what we want to do next year? Hot, sunny, beach, and surf somewhere tropical for once where we simply relax all day or go walk 10 to 15 km per day somewhere new. Either way, it should be exciting whatever it is. And yes, I promise to try blog a bit about our regular boring lives throughout the year too!