Halfway Home

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It felt so good to be back in the U.S., even if just for a week. My main objectives were to eat as many bagels & pieces of "New York Style Pizza" as humanly possible & to stock my suitcase full of "homesickness curing" foods.

It was the strangest thing, I left our apartment at 11am on Friday morning to fly from Brisbane to Sydney and then Sydney to Honolulu. When I walk off the plane to meet Jon and hop an interisland flight to Maui, it was 10am on Friday. Shocking. The jet lag wasn't too bad though, other than not knowing what day it was, the time change didn't screw with our circadian rhythms too much.

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We rented a bright red Jeep Wrangler to cruise the island and style and rushed off to Mike's house, so he could begin shuttling everyone to and from the airport. After one of Mike's high school buddies arrived, there wasn't much time to think about how tired we were before we were off to Mike's parents condo for a lovely barbeque at sunset. The food was amazing; it was so nice to have "traditional American" cuisine =) I know it sounds silly, but it was so incredibly wonderful!

After the barbeque, Mike and his bleary eyed group of travellers set off to meet up with his bride-to-be and her friends who had just flown in from the Mainland for a night of libations at Moose McGillicuty's and then it all gets a bit fuzzy from there.....

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It was a great night, I'm sure!