The boys and I are back in Johannesburg after spending a couple of days in New York and a lot of flying. We've been pretty low-key since we've been back, with both boys and I sleeping a lot. I managed almost 24 hours of sleep on Saturday, not all to do with jetlag but more like 'life' lag.
It's all a bit overwhelming. Boys started getting excited about escalators in Puerto Rico (having not seen any for 2 years) so you can only imagine what New York was like. Our hotel was one block off Time Square and we certainly crunched quite a bit in: Empire State Building, Metropolitan, Central Park, Chinatown and not forgetting Toys R Us which James declared "torture".
We were more than ready for our 15.5 hour flight back however and boys only fell asleep after watching every kiddie movie there was and playing all the games. We arrived back on Thursday and have just being hanging out, seeing friends and literally re-acclimatizing ourselves to a mild Highveld winter albeit very dry and at 2000 metres above sea level.
This is the boys first time back in three years and I'm watching them trying to assimilate what 'here' is and what 'there' is. The island really feels like a shimmering chimasscura far, far away. It is something they are going to have to get use to as they will continue with their senior schooling here and we will be an African/West Indian family in the true sense.
We have almost 6 whole weeks here, something that I've certainly never had - and so the time stretches out in front of us quite languorously - though it will go quickly. We have many opticians appointments and ear specialists and other mundane school holiday things to get on with, as well as trips down to Cape Town and back up to Joburg and KwaZulu Natal.
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