We recently returned from three extremely busy weeks in the US. In between three work weeks for both of us, we had the opportunity to visit with lots of friends and family over the weekends. We met our new niece Ella, celebrated the 90th birthday of Jenn's grandfather, Bobby, played with our nephews and young cousins, and spent lots of quality time with siblings and parents. We also ate some excellent American food including poboys, Tex-Mex, breakfast tacos, sandwiches, and a few hamburgers.
It was good to be back, but surprisingly we were very ready to return to Bratislava. Life is nice here. It's slower, low stress, and life doesn't revolve around Charlie Sheen's nonsense.
We had the worst routing on any of our international trips, due to the airfare being unusually outrageous. The airlines want you to believe it's the increase in fuel costs, but they sure use that excuse a lot. We used some of my upgrade stickers to fly first class from Dallas to Boston. We watched this year's Oscar winner, The King's Speech. Jenn was so disappointed when she found out that the movie wasn't only showing in first class, but was also screened in economy. How quickly we forget where we came from. (So she doesn't get mad at me for saying that, I should explain that she was very excited because she thought it was so worth it to upgrade to first class because we got to see such a good movie and was upset when she realized we still could have seen it in coach).
I thought the movie was very good. The acting was great, but I also thought they were very showy roles. It wasn't the best movie I saw in the past year, but I can understand why others thought it was.
I had a steak quesadilla for lunch which was mediocre, but I ate it. Jenn had a grilled chicken salad that didn't impress her much. The warm chocolate cookies for dessert were great though. The real treat of the day was getting bumped to business plus class seats for our international flight from Boston to Madrid. It makes such a difference flying business internationally. The seats are nice and recline all the way. We didn't use our personal TV's because there was nothing we wanted to watch. They announced they would be showing True Grit on the big screen, but it never came on. Our three course meal wasn't bad. The shrimp appetizer was much better than we anticipated. It takes a great deal of courage to eat shrimp on an airplane, but we braved it and ended up just fine. The braised beef ribs were alright, but it was kind of cool having braised beef ribs on an airplane. I skipped dessert and can't even remember what Jenn had.
We both got some sleep after that for the remainder of the flight in our fully reclined seats. It was awesome. I don't ever want to go back to economy seating. Unfortunately, we had to on our flight from Madrid back to Vienna. It was hard to swallow. There were no warm nuts, no cookies, hardly any leg room, and to Jenn's dismay, no Kings Speech. Don't worry though, we survived and arrived safely back in Bratislava.
It's back to regular old life and getting back into our routine. Winter seems to be over, but it looks it'll be cool and rainy for a while before the sun shines again. Spring is near.
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