Well.. Am I home? I’m in Jersey, which is where I’m from and where my parents are, but these days I live in Vancouver.. so where’s home? *shrugs* dunno.. but it all got very confusing yesterday, talking to Russell and saying “home” cos he had no idea whether I meant Vancouver or Jersey!
So what’s new? Not much.. left Vancouver on Saturday afternoon.. uneventful flight.. had a decent enough seat, watched 3 movies: Flicka (total chick flick - some girl and her wild horse she wants to tame), Elf (which I’ve seen before but meh it’s alright), and RV (with Robin Williams, also “alright” but nothing to write home about).
There’s a Mastercard advert on TV right now which shows people arriving at an airport, hugging friends and family etc. On-screen captions give the price of flights from various destinations and ends with “Spending the holidays together: Priceless”. It’s funny, cos I just tried to find it online and came up with this, which is obviously the UK version of the same ad. I’m fairly sure the North American version says “holidays” rather than “Christmas”. Whatever - you get the idea. Point is.. I was pretty sure that it was Gatwick airport in the advert, and having been there yesterday, I’m even more convinced.
I’d said I’d give Russell a call once I was at the airport to see if maybe we could meet up and do something, as he’s only 15 minutes away by train. As I walk through in to the arrivals hall, there he is! Total nice surprise - I was chuffed to bits :-)
We mooched around the airport, ended up in Pizza Express. Had some Fanta (Mmm FANTA!) and a pizza. Shot the shit for a while and caught up - a totally nice way to kill a few hours that would otherwise have been spent sitting around and getting wound up with the general frantic stress of the airport.
Caught my flight back to Jersey and ended up sitting next to Nathan, who I knew from school and also worked with at Jersey Telecoms. I always joke that you’re bound to know someone on a flight from Gatwick to Jersey and this one was no exception.
Got to Jersey, grabbed my luggage, and went through the door into the arrivals hall to find a pair of exciteable parents. Nice! I was kinda fading by that point, having been up almost 24 hours. Crashed out at home for a bit, almost fell asleep on the sofa, and decided it was time to go to bed around 8pm. I woke up this morning around 7:30ish, felt alright, so got up and had breakfast with my parents and proceeded to do mostly nothing all day. I’m wondering if the jetlag will kick in suddenly this evening and I’ll be all yawning and wiped, but so far so good..
Did my podcast earlier, first time doing it on my laptop, first time doing it in a different country, but I think it went alright for the most part.
Off now for dinner with my parents, brother and his girlfriend.. I’ve changed my blog so the times are UK times not Pacific time.. More news as it happens!
