Ahhhhhhhh. Umm, now what?

Okay, my family is starting to get calls because I haven't updated since Washington. Sorry.

We finally made it back to Lisa's place at 9:00 p.m. Friday (instead of the originally planned 5:00 p.m. Wednesday). Six hours in the car was a bit of an ordeal, but there were no further delays or disasters.

I did very little for the next two days except copy, rotate and organize our photos on Mom's laptop and pull out a select 20% of them for a slide show. Lisa prepared an amazing Greek dinner for us all on Sunday and we had a big double birthday party.

My trip back to Costa Rica was not without its share of excitement, what with my first flight getting in at the exact time the second flight was due to leave, but the Departures board at my arrival gate said the second one was delayed by 20 minutes, so after a flat-out run through the airport (which demonstrated unequivocally to me that we did not, in fact, get that much exercise during our trip), I found that it was actually delayed by over an hour, so I was fully recovered by the time they actually got around to boarding. I even saw my bags go in at the eleventh hour, so I knew they were safely aboard the plane.

We got in at 10:00 p.m. Costa Rica time - that's midnight in NC and 7:00 a.m. the next day in Greece. Customs and immigration were both uncrowded and friendly, and Alex was there to pick me up.

He picked the girls up this morning, and we've all just been hanging around the house today because their school vacation started this week. This is their mid-year break, not "summer" vacation, so they go back in two weeks for the second half of their school year.

I'm surprised at how tired I feel, since we managed to get ourselves back onto a relatively Western Hemisphere schedule while at Lisa's house. Of course, it's not like I have any responsibilities I have to gear up for, so I can just lie around if I feel like it. In fact, I'm not sure just what to do with myself at the moment. After going and going non-stop for the entire month of June, and even having things I wanted to get done during our couple of days at Lisa's house, all of a sudden there are no demands. I have to pay four bills online and then...deciding where to go for dinner is about as urgent as it gets, and I've got that narrowed down to the restaurant across the street or pizza and a video in the living room. (I'm skipping the guild meeting tonight - told them that even before things went haywire with the flights home.)

Anyway. I may not have much to say for the next couple of days, but once I get back into things I'll post some more pictures and things from the trip.