Well I am back on the east coast of the United States. Plane ride from Shanghai to Atlanta was a good as a 13 hour plane trip can be. We arrived an hour early but the plane from Atlanta to Jacksonville (where Gail was patiently waiting for me) was 4 hours late. Jet lag has provided lots of mentally fuzzy days and strange sleeping habits but I seem to be back to a fairly normal schedule.
I quickly flew up to visit Zac & Nicole in Vermont. So I ended up going from snow in Hangzhou the morning of my departure to LOTS of snow in Vermont. We went sledding a couple of times. I figure if I was sitting on a sled I would have less distance to fall. I forgot about how hard it is to climb up the hill and the bumps that launch you when you're flying downhill. I escaped without any bruises but my throat was raw from screaming.
I uploaded a video that Zac took http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2196109459136925989&hl=en it is a rather big file so if you have a slow connection – skip it. It generally just provides lots of laughs for me but it might not be “bandwidth worthy” for you.
