Coming Back

Hello to all my faithful readers.
        In the next few days I will be posting a few more posts to put a close on some of this past weekends events, some of my overall thoughts, and some pictures to share.
      But I am currently sitting in a McDonalds, drinking a really bad cup of coffee that I put a piece of chocolate in to attempt to give it some taste, and have gotten a pretty good internet connection.  Oh yeah, I'm in Amsterdam!  It's really crazy.  My mind is pretty blank, so I don't really feel like I'm feeling anything, but this will all come in time.  The first flight was smooth and went very quickly.  Now this next flight is only 9 hours, so it will be doable.  It's hard to believe that I'm so wide awake and I need to start getting my body to think that its 4 am, not 11:30 am.  But with this coffee in my system and with a few good movies on the airplane (Madagascar 3 Escape to Africa...) hopefully I can trick myself into a new time zone :).
       But I suppose I should go now and head to the gate.  Don't want to recreate a scene from the movies where I'm rushing like a madwoman through the airport only to see the plane lifting into the sky without me.  Next time I write i'll be back in Chi-town.  Crazy.

Thanks for the prayers for safe and smooth travel, I greatly appreciate them!