Getting back to normal

It has taken a few days, almost a week actually, but Stacy and I have almost gotten our biological clocks reset to Pacific Time from Central European Time. I'm up to sleeping until 5:30 am or so from being wide awake from 1:30 to 2:30 am. Stacy is sleeping to 5:30 to almost alarm time of 6:00 am. We're both still fighting to stay up to 9:00 pm though!
The nine hour time difference makes most of Germany's daytime during our night and most of our daytime during their night.
This week has been getting back in the swing of things at work, I've been transferring the video we took on the trip to DVD. We took about 4 hours worth of video on the SD cards. Taking that video to the computer then converting it to DVD has taken DAYS! Everyday since Monday and getting only two disks done a day it takes so long. The last disk, number 5, is a partial so it actually should be done before we go home tonight.
So tomorrow I'm back to sorting the photos and get at least some on-line by tomorrow afternoon. Final totals; Stacy at just under 1000 photos, Sandy with almost 500 and I took 560 photos. So I'm trying to get what seems to be the best of everybody's photos without showing the same photos taken 3 times. Then add captions etc, I know how it helps to know what you're looking at but it all takes time.

Now that we're back I'm having that old feeling of it seeming like we never went anywhere!

We also came back to very COLD temps! It was snowing and around 20 degrees when we got back to Spokane last Saturday (12/5) afternoon. Even with everybody in Germany dressed like it was the arctic, it had been in the upper 40's for all but one of the days of our visit. So I was very comfortable for the most part and wearing a light jacket for most of the trip. We get back here and it's the 20's and just gets colder to several nights of below zero temps with "highs" of around 10 above zero. It's supposed to 'warm up' to the 20's again and snow this weekend. Want to check it out yourself, take a look at KREM.com, the Spokane CBS station and a 'local' TV station for us. Like the old areas in California I sometimes check on line, you can get the area weather forecast from the morning news on their website.

OK, the last disk is almost done on the laptop! I can start on the photos again, so more later. Tad

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