I just got back from Paris (and with my bags too, yay!). My last trip from Europe, I wasn't so lucky. Not only that, they didn't even deliver my bags to me. I had to go get them myself the next day. But anyways, I wanted to write while I was on vacation since so much was happening, but I was so exhausted from sightseeing every day. I'm too tired right now to write about it since it's about 2:30 AM for me right now, but I will at least talk about today.

I got up early this morning for the quick flight to London and then the long flight to LAX. It was a pretty normal travel day. Traveling back from Europe is always the strangest experience. It's like a 40 hour day. It was particularly strange flying over the Arctic region. Even though the sun was bright when we left, it set for a few hours and we had the early morning light look when we were over the pole region and then the sun rose again as we flew farther south. Science is a cool thing. If you fly in the summer, it's daylight the whole time even though you've lost a night in the travel. Anyways, the trip is guaranteed to mess you up no matter which way you go. Anyways, since I had the "direct" flight (at least from London), I got home "quick". It's a tough thing though to sit for 10 hours straight. You can only watch so many movies in a row. I didn't even want to watch the 4th movie, but since I wasn't tired, and the guy next to me was asleep so I couldn't get my book, and the window only showed me an endless sea of ice, I watched a 4th movie. However, a couldn't bear to watch a 5th movie. Can you believe I had two more hours of flight after doing all of that? So then I listened to the music stations that the flight provided (which are better than on domestic flights). I found it particularly amusing that they were playing an anthology of Tom Jones on one of the channels. I listened for a bit only confirming what I had said earlier about him. It just sounds like karaoke to me. I don't know, anyone disagree? Anyways, the movies I saw (in this order) were Sinbad, The Medallion, Matchstick Men, and Out of Time. I really wanted to see Sinbad anyways because I really enjoy Dreamworks animation and I enjoyed that. I thought The Medallion would be good cuz it's Jackie, but it was just really cheesy and I think the flight version was edited so it was inconsistent in some parts. I don't think it's worth your time regardless. I never really cared to see Matchstick Men, but since it was free, I went for it. I enjoyed the story quite alot actually. It's definitely a good rental. Out of Time was another movie I didn't really care to see, but turned out much better than I expected. It probably wouldn't disappoint as a rental, although it is one of those movies where none of the characters have any good moral fiber which makes you kind of not care what happens to them. I tend not to like those, but the I'd give the story a little better than average.

Well, I have about 200 or so photos to check out on my computer now. I've only seen the thumbnail version so far on my camera so I'm curious to see how well the pictures turned out. I took almost every picture at large size which is really huge. At the end of the trip, I was wondering if this was a good idea. Anyways, I'll talk more about my trip this week. Hopefully, I will be able to blog faithfully as I adjust to Pacific Standard Time. If not, forgive me.

Footnote: I think it's funny that the spell checker on this website doesn't recognize the word "blog" as a real word.