The Longest Day

22nd May 2010 -- the longest day of our lives...

By 2.30am, we were awake.. getting ready to go to the airport to catch a 5.30am flight from Perth to Sydney. After slightly more than 4 hours, we arrived at the Sydney airport, got a transfer to the international terminal, and waited to board our 13 hour flight to San Francisco. 

A glimpse of Sydney from a distance, with an A380 in the foreground

Thinking about the flight again now makes us feel so 'sien'... We were glad for the more comfortable seats and on-board entertainment - but still found it very hard to sleep.

We arrived at San Francisco at about 10.45 am... on the 22nd of May 2010! 

For Kevin, it was a return to SF after almost 15 years since he came here for a holiday with his family. For Agnes, it was the first time she set foot on American soil.

We took a taxi directly to the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), where we would be spending the next two weeks. We were walking around looking for our on-campus accomodation at the Women's faculty club, when we saw what looked like an old, abandoned building...

...which turned out to be the building we were looking for! (It really looks better in the photo than in real-life!) 

But it was really nice inside...

Jet-lagged and super-tired, Agnes went to bed immediately, while Kevin went out to hunt for some food to take away. After lunch, we both had a long nap, and woke up just in time for dinner. 

We couldn't sleep on our first night here... our biological clocks were still following Malaysia/Perth clocks... despite how tired we felt...