I went to bed last night about 9:30 to try and sleep through the night to adjust back into this time zone. I was tired enough to fall asleep quickly but around 04:30 I woke up and started feeling awake, finding it difficult to get back to sleep. After tossing and turning for a bit, I got up around 05:30. I had some breakfast and waited for the sun to come up.
Once my wife got up she planned to go to an exercise class at the gym from 09:30. I tool this as an opportunity and encouragement to get back into my running, so I set out for a 5k run at the same time. Not having done one for three weeks I was a bit rusty and took it easy, but managed to complete the distance in a time better than I expected. I did careful stretching afterwards to avoid stiff muscles, but my leg muscles are really a bit sore now. I’ll rest up tomorrow and maybe do another run on Sunday.
We didn’t do very much today. The highlights were:
- Going grocery shopping to restock perishable food supplies. A lot of fruit and vegetables and dairy stuff.
- Driving out to pick up Scully from our friends’ place. We went at lunch time as they were working from home, so we had something to eat and told them about our trip. Scully was of course super excited to see us again.
- Transferring photos from the trip off my phone onto the computer. I tool over 1100 photos on my phone. Plus another 500 or so on my dSLR, which I haven’t transferred yet.
- Taking Scully for an evening walk.
- Cooking fried rice for dinner. I said to my wife, our first night back home, what do you want me to cook? And she picked the most time-consuming and complex thing that I regularly make. There’s a lot of vegetable chopping and other prep work involved, including cooking the rice and a fried egg separately before getting the wok out.
Oh, we wondered if when we got home new neighbours would have moved into the apartment next door, which sold just before we left. But nobody’s in there yet. Though today we did see some people go in and remove the wooden shutters from the windows. Perhaps the new owners prefer some other form of window shading such as curtains or blinds.
We’re off to bed a bit early again tonight as we’ve been tired all day, but staying awake to force ourselves into the right time zone.