So my sister and her family were over in Australia for three weeks and then I travelled back with them to their home in Texas! I will be staying with them for six weeks while some awesome people look after my house back home. It's really only the second time I've stayed with my Texas family and the first time that I've stayed for any length of time which is quite strange. That had never dawned on me until the last few days. After staying here for a week in July, it almost felt like coming home this time. :)
We had a long, drama-filled trip home. The drama was limited to the airport's errors, thankfully, and not sickness or hysterical children! The kids are actually pretty good flyers. I anticipated the plane trips possibly being miserable but they weren't. Dragging them through multiple airports was a little miserable at times but, really, they did pretty well.
On being dragged through multiple airports, let me tell you that a 13 hour flight is nothing. If all I had to do was get on a plane, fly for thirteen hours and get off at my destination, it would be a breeze. Seriously. It's the leg-after-leg-after-leg of connecting flights on either side (or both) of the 13 hour that makes the travelling a nightmare.
And the jetlag afterward...
After getting back to the house around 1:30am, we all slept till about 11:15am the next day. Sounds great, doesn't it? Until we couldn't really sleep last night. :P I was awake literally all night. I tried to go to sleep around 11pm and couldn't. Got up and read a book from cover-to-cover. Tried to sleep again (it was 2:30am by this time)--after having the living daylights scared out of me by my oldest niece who saw me walk by her room to the bathroom and decided to hop in my bed and scare me, VERY SUCCESSFULLY. Got up again an hour later and found my niece was also still awake. She climbed in bed with me and we watched a movie on YouTube until 5:30am when we tried to sleep again. Succeeded by 6-6.30 am for about 3 hours. Found out nobody else got much sleep either.
Other than that, though, I'm loving being here. :)
