Were home

We are back in Calgary after a long flight. The weather is good, giving us a chance to adjust. We both woke up in the middle of the night last night and felt like it should be day time but eventually managed to get back to sleep, and we feel good this morning.

Heading Home

After an enjoyable stay with the Hansen-Langes, our trip is just about finished; the only remaining task on our end is to make it to the Hong Kong airport. We have really enjoyed our trip and the chance to step back from our ordinary lives and think about what is important to us while we are not in the middle of day to day life. Even though we have enjoyed not having a strict routine, I think it will be nice to get back into the regular swing of things. However, getting to the point of having things set up again may be a challenge. I'm sure we will manage doing the reverse of all we did when we prepared to leave last year, and we will soon be settled back into life in Calgary.

Lazy in Hong Kong

We have spent the last week loafing around in Hong Kong. We also visited Hong Kong (and Debbi and Dave) at the beginning of our trip in November. Last November we went to see many of the tourist sites. We don't really feel like we need to go see them again, so we have spent a lot of time warming up Dave and Debbi's couch, eating great food, and cuddling Jasper (who is definitely one of the cutest babies in the whole world). Debbi must have decided that things were getting too boring because last week she threw herself down a flight of stairs and sprained a foot, so she could take us on a tour of the Hong Kong emergency room. Debbi is OK, but she can still occasionally be sighted hobbling down the streets of Hong Kong with a very stylish cane.

It is very strange to think that we return to Calgary in only a few days. I face our return with mixed feelings that I did not expect. Of course I am excited to see our friends and family in person instead of only over skype. I look forward to coffee dates and long chats to catch up with everyone. My biggest regret about our ten month long trip is how much I have missed at home. So much has happened in all of your lives and I wish that I could have been there. I have been surprised how terrifying it feels to come back home. So many things will change all at once. We both need to find jobs, we need to figure out what part of the city we want to live in then sell our condo and move there, we need to find a new church to become a part of. These choices are intimidating. Our decisions will likely be longer lasting than was our decision to travel. But the very scariest thing of all about going home is the weather. We will be leaving a year of lovely hot weather to return to the beginning of the long, cold, Canadian winter. I'm not sure why we planned things that way.