Home!!!

We are finally home! Our 2 cats were very happy to see us. I think our house sitter was happy to be able to go home too. We had a week to unpack the few suitcases we brought home with us. Fed Ex arrived exactly one week after our arrival. The driver came to our house first that day because he couldn't get to any of his other packages in the truck with all of our items in there. He filled our entryway with the 23 suitcases. The 5 boxes went into Mel's office by the front door. I slowly but surely emptied everything. All of our purchases I piled in the livingroom so we could go thru them and figure out who gets what and what is being saved for birthdays or Christmas. Mel is looking thru the pile, it's quite large! The patchwork pieces I bought in Cochin are hanging over the back of the sofa. They are made with the embroidered portion of antique saris, all the threads are silver or gold. Quite amazing. Just one of the great and unique items we brought home with us.

I'm happy to be home.....most of the time. It was such a great experience, I'm really glad we were able to do it. Not sure we'll do it again but we did sign up for part of the World Cruise 2011. We'll see what's going on at home at that time before deciding for sure to go. Everyone asks what our favorite port was. With such a huge variety, it's hard to pick just one. I would definitely go back to the Seychelles......if they weren't so far away! Africa was wonderful, but again, WAY too much time in the air to get there. New Caledonia would be a nice place to visit again. Ile des Pins was gorgeous. So many of these places I'd never heard of before. Now the world seems like a much smaller place.

Thanks for following us around the world!