We're back home, and massively jet-lagged. Yesterday (Saturday) the kids slept their "night" from 4 in the afternoon until 2 in the morning. I would have kept them up longer today (Sunday), I was hoping we'd all stay up until 6 or 7 pm, but by the time I got up from my own 4-hour nap in the afternoon, they were all asleep again, and I had to pry them off the chairs and floors where they had fallen asleep and put them in their beds.
We left Bangkok on a 1 am flight which landed in Korea 6 hours later, 9:30 am Korea time. We hung out in the transit lounge again, and then boarded a plane at 11:30 am Friday for New York. It flew all day, then into something that looked like sunset but was actually pre-dawn up near the Arctic Circle, then back into day somewhere across Canada, and then landed at JFK at almost noon Eastern time Friday. During that lost 24 hours, we watched three movies, had 2 meals, and nursed our rising fevers (especially Don and Thompson). Everyone felt lousy and really disoriented by the time we got to New York. We fetched all our luggage and went through immigration and customs, and then had to make a dash in the 97-degree heat two terminals away - Jacob and Halle were so tired they could hardly stand, and so thirsty they were weeping - just in time to slide into the shuttle bus out to the little plane on the tarmac that would take us to Boston.
Unfortunately our luggage can't run as fast, and wasn't on that flight. We were told it most likely got on the next one, landing in an hour, so we waited at Boston until the next flight, when two of the nine bags got off. Our friend who met us there kindly waited with us while we sorted things out quite a few times in the baggage service office. By then our kids were falling asleep wherever they happened to sit down, so we called it the world's longest day and had our friend drive us home. The bags arrived at 5 am Saturday by courier, and most of us were wide awake by then. We've given ourselves a couple of days to try to get those pesky days and nights sorted out, and to let our fevers go down. We brought home a 3-day fever/flu but it looks like everyone's had the third day by now, so we're starting to feel human again instead of like zombies.
I am writing entries on Cambodia, so even though we're home, stay tuned - we will add to the blog this week with photos and descriptions of the temples we saw at Angkor. What an amazing place! I'm so glad we added that leg of the trip, even though it meant schlepping heavy Bhutan-loaded bags throughout Asia onto 6 different plane flights.
