So for those of you who wondered, yes, I arrived home safe and sound on the evening of January 30th, which equaled three long days of travel--two of those being January 29th. Time travel is weird! I posted an albumn of pics over on facebook, but here are a couple highlights:

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I'm currently on my second wake-a-thon, trying to change my sleep cycle in preparation for New Zealand. That's right, this time tomorrow I will be jumping up and down waiting to go to the airport ( Read more... )

This has been a rather nice, mellow holiday season. No one went crazy on presents for the most part, and since I did my shopping online and two months ago there was no self-induced Xmas Stress. The excess snow has been a hassle but nothing truly out of the ordinary when you consider this is how my siblings grew up, when weather patterns were ( Read more... )

It's official!

My tour and flights have all been booked!

I'm headed to New Zealand in January!!!