It's good to be home...

I think one of the nicest things about taking a holiday is actually looking forward to coming home. After a very long flight from Sydney to LA, a quick connection, and a significantly shorter flight from LA to Toronto, I made it back to Canada in one piece. Even better, I survived the traffic from the airport to my place.

So I think I have the weirdest case of jet lag ever. I was pretty tired when I got back, but I spent time chatting with my roommate and then TB came over to collect her souvenir and see my pictures. We drank a bottle of Wolf Blass Rose to commemorate my visit to their winery in the Barossa Valley outside of Adelaide. Even after that, it took we awhile to fall asleep. Anyhow, the thing that makes my jet lag strange is that I woke up at 7 am this morning, after only about 6 hours of sleep and couldn't get back to sleep. All this after not sleeping for over 24 hours... Odd.

Anyway, I killed time in the morning playing around on the Interent and then I went to the overpriced crappy grocery store that is a short walking distance from my apt to get some basics. I had lunch followed by an afternoon nap. Then it was off to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" on the Imax screen at Paramount. I enjoyed it a lot. Even better, I got to see the preview for the next Harry Potter movie on such a big screen. I had also seen that trailer in Australia when we did the Gold Class Seating thing. I'm so excited for that movie.

Speaking of Harry Potter, I of course of course of course picked up the new book the day it came out when I was in Australia. I'm glad that the Australian version, like the Canadian version but unlike the American version, was printed on rainforest-friendly paper. Anyway, I loved it and finished it long before the plane ride home. My initial plan was to save it for the flight. But once I started it, I couldn't stop. I can't wait for the next (and last) book!

Anyway, after the movie, TB and I wandered around Queen St. and did some shopping. I fell in love with a limited edition purse designed by Paul Frank for John Deere that has old fashioned tractors on it. It's really neat. It was on sale (but still expensive) but I bought it. So that's my impulse buy for the summer. After that, we had sushi for dinner then we wandered to her apartment so I could see her Thailand pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I definitely will try to upload some fun pics from Oz on here tomorrow!