No place like HOME

Well after a late departure from Auckland and a Home Alone style run through the LAX airport to (almost miss) our connector flight, we are home again.

The flights were pretty good, the jet lag isn't too bad, and we saw 3-4 new release movies, so we can't complain. We found out that NatNat was waiting for us at the airport... don't know how we missed her, but SORRY NATNAT we will call you soon! We got a TIM HORTONS COFFEE (!!!) on the drive home and then surprised Ryans sister and neices with our arrival. They had no clue when we were getting home. Quite amusing. Watched some House (you have no clue how much we missed our shows...) and hit the sac. Our clockas are still haywire so midnight still only seemed like 8pm so we couldn't sleep, and then noon felt like and early-ish start of 8am. Give us a couple days to normalize, we won't feel like sofas anymore in a couple of days.

Here are my few little things I am glad to be home for/missed about Canada.
-Central heating. I am seriously in love with not being able to see my breath in the bathroom after I shower.
-Nice people. Not that New Zealanders aren't nice, just that it feels a lot more like people here are nice to be nice and not because they think they will get a big tip from the people they think are Americans.
-Shower pressure. Although you run across the occasional shower head that sucks here, they are running about 90 percent SUCK in NZ. No pressure and a mm between scalding hot and ice cold.
-Drip coffee. Everywhere has the Long Black (shot espresso filled with boiling water) not so cool.
-As much as I love it (and Ryan hates it...) it's good to see snow!
-Friends and family are a cheap call and a reasonably short drive away. PHONE CARDS SUCK.

MORE IN THE FUTURE KYLE JUST WALKED IN!!