Summer Holiday
(Picture: flying somewhere over Canada)
You know, I never realize just how far away from my family I am until I visit. From door to door, it’s around 18 hours. 1h 30m tube ride to Heathrow to arrive 3 hours before the flight. Around 8h in the air from London to Chicago. Another 2h 30m + waiting for the connecting flight. 1h 30m Chicago -> Omaha. Then another 1h 30m drive Omaha -> Lincoln. Add in baggage and, immigration and customs and the total time is 18 hours. Bleh.
Then you have jet lag, lack of sleep and the fact I hadn’t seen them for almost 2 years and it really wasn’t really a holiday. When I first bought the tickets the plan was to spend 15 days in the pool doing fuck all. But nothing ever works the way that you plan. We brought the horrible English weather with us so swimming was pretty much out of the question.
(Picture: My niece Ella, 3 years.)
She is a bit of a ham and posed for a lot of pictures.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
zOMG!! ADVENTURELAND! I’m originally from Iowa (Des Moines) but moved to San Diego 8 years ago.
seriously, now I can’t get the silly Adventureland advertising jingle out of my head….they ran it for years “Adven-ture-land where you can ride the Tornado, see a family show or hear a rock n roll band!” ok the song goes on but now I can’t remember the rest clearly
While in Des Moines you should check out Living History Farms. I loved that place when I was a kid, but it still might be fun as an adult.
Hrrm…now I’m feeling a bit homesick for Iowa!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Haha. I grew up with most of my family being in and around Des Moines and now that’s where my brother lives. So I’m no stranger to the area
Plus I seem to remember those commericals ran in Lincoln all through the summers also.
However, I think I’ve only been to Adventure Land a couple of times since Oceans of Fun in KC was more my style. In that blistering midwestern heat, water parks are a bit easier to deal with. But the nieces and nephew have season passes and they LOVE it so it’d be a fun thing to share with them.
Yeah the Living History Farms is pretty neat. I haven’t been there a lot, but I do remember one of my aunt’s got married there a few years ago. But I’m not sure if I can go there again without many snide remarks with referneces to one of my favourite books – Choke.
Oddly enough during my 6 year stint in San Francisco I was hardly homesick for the midwest, but living in London I sure do miss a lot of it.