It sure is good to be back. I missed being with my wife and girls, living in my own home, sleeping on my own bed, and even driving my own car. This is the longest time that I have been away from my family since being married. The longest time before that was when I went to Europe for a week for my International Residential for my MBA.

I spent most of the weekend with my family, making up for the time that I was gone. When we got home from the airport, the girls were just finishing their naps. So when Elise cried to get up, I went to pick her up and she just looked at me, I think she was surprised to see me. It actually, took a few minutes for her to warm up to me, I think she was reflecting on the past couple of weeks and trying to figure out where I had gone.

I also seem to have recovered quicker than usual from jetlag. Normally, coming back from Asia (traveling east), it takes a few days before I adjust back to a normal sleep pattern. But it seems that this time, arriving in the afternoon, and trying to stick to my new day/night schedule, it has only taken a couple of days to recover.

I can’t believe that I was in the air for almost 2 whole days. That isn’t including other travel time including in the car, on the train or waiting at airports or train stations. That means for out of the 14 days that I was gone, almost 20% of it was spent ‘en route’. Why can’t they hurry up and get those Transporters working!

This is the first time that I have used my blog to record an entire episode in my life, pictures included [trip photostream]. I hope that it has been interesting, and I’m sure that in the future, I will take the opportunity to look back and and read through my experiences here. For now, it’s back to life at home .