Travel is always a weird experience. Especially when you travel really long distances. Between the weird time warp that takes place on planes and the shifting of time zones outside of those planes, it's hard to keep track of what time it actually is. And if you go far enough, your internal clock gets so scrambled that you can more or less reset it as you like.
We landed in DC around 3:30. Kevin's mom picked us up at the airport, and by the time we'd gotten our bags and grabbed Kina from her house, it was after five before we made it home. Then I had to run to the grocery store because after two weeks away, there wasn't much food in the house that we trusted. But it was too long before we were able to crash on the couch with Chinese food, beers, and our trusty DVR.
Sadly, our trusty DVR proved to be somewhat less than trusty. It faithfully recorded all of our shows the first week we were gone. Then it turned off completely and missed everything that aired the second week we were gone. On the bright side, all of those shows were on OnDemand, it just meant we couldn't fast forward through the commercials while we were watching.
Not that we watched much that first night anyway. I think we made it through one episode of TV before it was definitely time for bed.
The next morning, we woke up around 5:30. By six we had agreed that it was definitely not too early for mimosas. So equipped with four bottles of Andre left over from the wedding, a fresh bottle of orange juice, and an extra cheesy scramble, we once more planted ourselves on the couch to watch some TV.
We only made it a few hours before the champagne was gone and it was time to actually do other stuff. Because no matter what happens, it seems that we are no longer capable of simply sitting on the couch in front of the TV for a full day. I choose to see this as a sign of maturity.
We landed in DC around 3:30. Kevin's mom picked us up at the airport, and by the time we'd gotten our bags and grabbed Kina from her house, it was after five before we made it home. Then I had to run to the grocery store because after two weeks away, there wasn't much food in the house that we trusted. But it was too long before we were able to crash on the couch with Chinese food, beers, and our trusty DVR.
Sadly, our trusty DVR proved to be somewhat less than trusty. It faithfully recorded all of our shows the first week we were gone. Then it turned off completely and missed everything that aired the second week we were gone. On the bright side, all of those shows were on OnDemand, it just meant we couldn't fast forward through the commercials while we were watching.
Not that we watched much that first night anyway. I think we made it through one episode of TV before it was definitely time for bed.
The next morning, we woke up around 5:30. By six we had agreed that it was definitely not too early for mimosas. So equipped with four bottles of Andre left over from the wedding, a fresh bottle of orange juice, and an extra cheesy scramble, we once more planted ourselves on the couch to watch some TV.
We only made it a few hours before the champagne was gone and it was time to actually do other stuff. Because no matter what happens, it seems that we are no longer capable of simply sitting on the couch in front of the TV for a full day. I choose to see this as a sign of maturity.
So Kevin took the dog to the park and went for a bike ride and bought food. Meanwhile I started updating my blog (which I missed dearly during my time away from computers) and read. Because I didn't do enough reading on my honeymoon, obviously. Once we'd cooked dinner and walked Kina, it was once again time to make a dent in the backlog of television.
But once again, we didn't make it very far before we were once again falling asleep. Over the weekend we managed to catch up on SHIELD, Elementary, and Orphan Black. But that still left Game of Thrones, The Americans, and a documentary I'd been watching. Still, it was a nice, relaxing way to transition back into the real world. And since most of those shows were actually over, this meant that we still had some stuff to watch during the week, when we were still too tired to do much of anything.
On Monday it was back to work. I'm really glad we came back from Europe a little early and had some time to just sit in the house and re-acclimate to being home. It was nice to have a truly lazy day after all the running around that comes with being a tourist. And it's always more relaxing to be surrounded by your own stuff.
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