It's good to be home ............. well, sort of home. :-) I wasn't sure if I was going to make it home on the day I had planned. For some reason, the flights were full coming out of Toronto to Vancouver on Tuesday night. I can't understand why it was so busy, but thankfully, I was able to get a seat on the plane to Vancouver. Once I arrived there, I was able to get up front to Sydney. I was able to get a good sleep on the plane, although it was broken up sleep. For some reason, when I do that portion of the flight, I usually can only sleep 4 - 5 hours in a stretch before waking up for a couple of hours and then falling back to sleep for a few hours. It sure is a nice way to travel, though. From Sydney, I hopped on another plane for the short flight to Melbourne where Dad picked me up from the airport - he had just finished teaching when I called him to tell him that I had arrived.
I had caught a cold a few days before leaving Canada and so my body was already weakened - then, to put the jet lag on top of that, I was soooooo tired - way more tired than I normally am when I get back to Oz. Usually, I can stay up until 8pm before falling into bed, but on Thursday night, I was 'napping' by 4pm and, after a yummy takeaway dinner of chiko roll and chips (french fries), I went to sleep at 6:30pm. Unfortunately, because I went to bed so early, I was up at 4am the next morning. Grrrrr. Our days have been pretty much relaxed since I arrived. Dad taught on Friday and then did a lot of prepping on Saturday. I woke up early (4am) both Saturday and Sunday mornings. I hope that I can somehow get back on track soon.
We were given a warm welcome back to our ward in Melbourne. Dad and I feel like this is our adopted ward since Dad has taught so much here in Melbourne. We feel so comfortable here in Glenroy Ward. I love how we can go to church in Canada on one Sunday and to church in Australia the next Sunday and things are the same - even the Sunday School lesson continued on the same. I love it!
We're still not sure what's happening with regards to where we are going to be this week and whether or not we are going to go home for a bit before heading off to Perth. The plan right now is to stay here in Melbourne for another week if Dad's company can arrange a plane for Dad and his students to look at. There are two students on the course who actually work for the company who maintain the plane here in Melbourne and they have told Dad that there should be no problem for them to use their plane to cover the items Dad needs to for this course - hopefully, we will find out by Monday whether that is going to happen.
We would really like to be able to go home before heading off to Perth.
It's been great getting back into my shorts and t-shirt and sandals here - the weather is better in HB than in Melbourne, but no complaining for me, that's for sure. :-) It was 22C when I arrived in Melbourne and today it's 25C. The only thing about Melbourne is that it's often cloudy and wet - kind of reminds me of BC and England. My friend, Robyn, in HB told me that it's been hot there - looking forward to that if we get to go home next week. :-)
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