Thursday, November 1, 2012

Home

I've been home for a couple of days.  What an amazing vacation.   The trip back was long, though - we got up at 3:00am in Istanbul, and 28 hours (three flights) later I arrived in Calgary.   I can't sleep in airplanes, so I got a hotel for the night in Calgary.  Even then, it was 2:00am before I got in and managed to catch about 4 hours sleep before my dad came to pick me up.

I'm not sure if I picked up a flu bug or if it was a mistake to brush my teeth using tap water in Turkey, but whatever it is hit me during a layover in Paris.   I haven't managed to kick it yet.  Nosebleeds started yesterday, I assume from the dry air after being spoiled with the humidity over there.

I went to bed at 2:30pm on the day I got home, and slept until 4:00am.  Yesterday, I slept through Halloween (poo!) when I went to bed at 5:30 and slept 12 hours.  I'm trying to stay up until 9 tonight, in an effort to get back to a normal schedule.

3 comments:

  1. A trip abroad is like childbirth: years later you will only remember the beauty of the trip and not what it took to get there and back.

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  2. sorry to hear you are feeling lousy but that sounds like quite an adventure. A friend of mine from HS opened up a coffee shop in Istanbul - Denizen Coffee - I'm sure Istanbul is massive but figured I'd throw that out there just in case...

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