home sweet home

We made it! Well actually we've been here a few days, but with the jet-lag, catching up with family and adjusting to the summer heat I haven't had time to update. The trip was mostly uneventful. We left Sydney Wednesday morning, the airport was a madhouse! We actually made it to our flight when they were calling final boarding. And thats with us arriving at the airport 2.5 hours before our flight! We settled in to our economy comfort seats, totally worth the extra money for those extra 5 inches of legroom! The flight was long but ok, we slept a few hours, and watched plenty of movies. We arrived in LA early in the morning and made it through customs and all that jazz in record time! It was so great to stretch our legs and be able to walk around for a few hours. We boarded our flight to Memphis and we both fell asleep right away and slept most of the flight. We finally made it to Memphis just before 4pm and boy was it HOT!

I'm not going to lie, I think I had blocked out how hot it gets here. It gets hot in Australia but its a different kind of hot. I think adjusting to the heat and jet-lag have really worn us out the first few days. Our first night we both slept great, but since then we've had a bit of trouble. For me I'm awake until midnight and sleep really late, but my poor hubby took a nap yesterday afternoon which meant he had a miserable night sleep. I'm hoping another day or two and we'll be adjusted. I keep thinking (or hoping) that the more times we make the long trip the better we'll get at it and it will be easier. But I've done it many times and I don't think its going to get any easier.

We've spent some time relaxing, doing some shopping, visiting with friends, tonight we even made it downtown for a Redbirds game. Its so nice to be home. Its so nice to be around the familiar, especially after spending some much time away. Australia is where we live and it is home in a way, but the US will always be home to me.

Tomorrow we are off to the lake to enjoy a few days at the lake to celebrate our 1st anniversary! I can't even believe its been a year since we got married! It has flown by! I'll update again once we return from our weekend away!