Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Chasing the Sun

After 2 weeks of living in England I had adjusted to the time zone fairly good. When I would call home, Sydney always thought it was funny when I would tell her I was going to eat dinner (7pm - when it was only noon where she was.) Time Zones are a very interesting thing to think about. Quite confusing for small children.

Here's how my last Tuesday in England went:

7:00am GMT Wake Up (midnight Monday Utah time)
8:00am GMT Leave for Bristol Airport
10:30am GMT Flight leaves UK -8 hr flight to Newark.
5:30pm GMT Land in Newark, NJ (12:30pm EST)

4+ hour layover

10:15pm GMT Leave for SLC
3:00am GMT (Wed) Arrive in SLC. It's really 8:00pm MST.

I was chasing the sun all day. I saw 20+ hours of sunlight (kinda... as it was raining in Bristol when I left.)

I was very happy to see Deni, Ryan and Sydney happily awaiting my arrival in SLC. It's been a long 2 weeks away from my family. Not sure I'll ever leave them for so long again. I was tired, as I had been up for 20 hours with little sleep on the planes, but grateful to be home with my family.