Away From Home for the Holidays

This year we will be away from home for the holidays. We leave in just two short days for our whirlwind tour of America to visit family and friends for about 5 weeks. This will be the first time in 6 years that we are in the US for Christmas. Over the next 5 weeks we will experience 8 flights, including 4 of those as long-haul international ones of 9 hours each, 6 different time zone changes (spanning over 13.5 hours of time difference from here) 5 cities and at least as many different beds.

The kids are all kinds of excited. One of them asked me the other day to talk to ‘the calendar people’ and make Thursday come sooner.

One of the things I don’t look forward to, however, is the cold. Three of our cities are in prime snowy weather places. That scares the wits out of me, since this is getting in to winter here, and when it is 75 degrees or less in the morning, I wake up feeling like a Kevin-sicle. I have no idea how we will manage the cold everywhere we go. And the kids have no idea what they are in for, being frozen solid for 5 weeks straight.

The good thing about this trip is that we will get lots of chances to celebrate. We are looking forward to our second Thanksgiving the day after we arrive, with some family, and then of course the normal Christmas with my family, and then a late Christmas with Leah’s family. And so on. We will take any chance to celebrate, as long as it in indoors and warm.

What about you? What will your holidays look like this year?