On a plane again…have I used this title before?

Cue Willie Nelson…and a country twang.  “On the road again” (or plane, as it were)

This post is going to bore you and I’m sorry.  Or, maybe they all bore you, but you keep coming back!  Between the NFC Championship win, 10 days on the road, jet-lag, shopping with Greyson, smothering Graham and the Super Bowl climax (YES!!!), I don’t have a lot left in me to creatively share all of the in between. 

My trip to Asia was amazing. The people in both India and China were so accommodating and friendly.  The service was top-notch, the food was exotic and (mostly) delicious.  Our hosts in both countries made sure that we got a chance to try the local flavors- traditional Peking Duck is worth the great time and effort that goes into preparing it.  We took a trip to the Great Wall.  Amazing.  I would like to go back to India; preferably next year at the same time. The weather was perfect.

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Greyson had all sorts of good things to say when I got home. I brought him a Chinese kite and woke him up from his nap.  We laid in his bed for an hour, me dozing and him talking a mile a minute.  His best line, “I thought you were never going to come back!”  Ouch.

After 5 jet-lagged and kid-filled days back at home, Mike and I are, for the first time in a long time, on a plane side by side en route to Cancun with an overnight stop in Atlanta where we’re going to eat at the Woodfire Grill, one of our favorite Top Chef’s restaurants.  The boys are safely and happily in the hands of my mom, sister and Alayna so no worries there.  We’re like kids in a candy store right now, having a cocktail on the plane and watching movies.  I feel guilty…sort of…well, not really. 

Hasta luego!

This is my Hyderabad hotel, not Cancun ;-)    

PS. I fell in love with my toilet in Beijing.  That is, the toilet in my hotel room at the Fairmont.  It had a heated seat, it opened automatically when I stepped in front of it and, in turn, closed when I walked away.  An electronic panel mounted on the wall to my right gave me all sorts of options for ‘extras’.  I Skyped with Mike and the kids and it’s the first thing I showed them.  My Fairmont toilet is not to be confused with the one below which was 1 of 2 options in the women’s bathroom on our way to the Great Wall.  I’m not averse to trying new things but take note of the garbage can and imagine the stench.  My guess is the last cleaning occurred somewhere between 2004 and 2007.

The 2nd toilet option in this bathroom was not photographed, unfortunately. Although it looked like the Western toilets we all know and love, the seat was covered with a worn terry-cloth material that was padded and printed with pink and purple hearts.  I chose door # 2 and hovered.  TMI, I know.