Jetlag!

36 hours after springing from the front steps of my house, we staggar into Meaghan and Kevin's tiny apartment in South Korea, massive amounts of luggage in tow (Meaghan wanted 50 lbs of North American cargo, the ridiculous girl that she is). It is the middle of the night, but our hosts are bright eyed and bushy tailed. We chat for a while and tell of some of the adventures of getting there: squatting in the funny Asian toilets (read: porcelain hole in the ground in a misleading stall), being snapped at by assertive Koreans, the $140 US cab ride from the airport to the train station, where our driver knew we were on a time crunch so thus went an appropriate 160 km per hour (we made the last train of the night with only minutes to spare), the drunk man in Pusan who helped us with our luggage and talked with the cab driver to translate...

We also share some observations, and make some new ones: I know I am a tall woman by even Canadian standards, but standing in line for the bathroom with a pile of Japanese women made me feel like a giraffe amongst gazelles; the hot shower I was craving was to be had right in the tiled bathroom, next to the toilet and sink, and when I shampooed my hair and what not, I had to shiver because the shower head was laid to rest; the devastating news that the coffee I relied on so heavily every morning was not to be easily found in these parts, unless I wanted a "3 and 3", instant coffee with sugar and cream, all in one bundle. To one who likes her coffee freshly brewed and black, this notion is bordering on blasphemous.

But we are here and excited and talk and plan our adventures and laugh and giggle and tell stories from our respective sides of the world.

We all plop on Meaghan and Kevin's double bed and since we all are tired we share the bed, each sleeping horizontally instead of vertically. Grandpa Joe and Charley Bucket would have been proud.

We catch a few hours of sleep and I don't notice when Meaghan and Kevin get up to go to work. Despite the sleep, thanks to the 13 hour time difference and complete jetlag, I still feel completely out of it. And we leave for Bangkok in only hours...