[wpaudio url=”http://martypants.us/Korea/IllBeHomeForChristmas.mp3″ text=”I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Bing Crosby”]
It’s perhaps a little too early for singing Christmas tunes, but the thought of coming home for the holidays put me in the mood. Click the link above if you want to get in the mood, too.

I was skimming over the calendar a few weeks ago and realized my school holidays coincide nicely with the weekends this Christmas. I mulled it over in my mind and with a few people back home and then talked to my director. She’s ok with me taking off on Thursday the 24th of December and I won’t have to be back until the 4th of January.

It’s expensive as hell, but as my daughter, Jessica, reminded me, I was fond of saying “it’s only money; I’ll make more.” So true.

I’m taking an early flight out of Busan into Tokyo on the 24th where I’ll catch another long-ass flight to D/FW. If all goes according to plan, I should arrive in Dallas around 1:30pm on Christmas Eve.  I leave Tokyo around 1pm and get to Dallas at about the same time on the same day. How’s that for flying at the speed of the Earth’s rotation? I fly out again on January 2 for the two virtual days of flying home so I’ll be home in time to work on Monday the 4th.

I haven’t been home for Christmas since 2006 and I’m already getting excited about it.  I hope someone is having a turkey or a ham or something similar – we don’t get that very often here in Korea.