Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. One Wife's Approach To Rekindling Sexual Excitement In Her Marriage A true story by a lady who wishes to remain anonymous. It was an adult BBS that changed my marriage forever, and launched my sex life to heights I never would have imagined possible. I am going to avoid using names... including my own... and my home city and state, because I wish to keep our identity to ourselves. Maybe I am your next door neighbor! This is the story of how my husband and I went from very conventional sex in the bedroom with the lights out, to the gang bang last night of which I was the star. I am posting this story here on the Internet, because it was the stories I found here that sparked the change in my life. So, I guess you all want to know something about me before I get started. OK, I am 5'10" and weigh-in at 160lbs. I am a bit overweight, but not fat. I have wide hips, a large but apparently not-unattractive-butt, and solid thighs. "The better to trap men with," my husband says. I would prefer a slimmer figure and a smaller butt, but my husband doesn't want me to change a thing. And, as I have discovered, when you are on your knees with your face buried in the pillows and that big butt is sticking up in the air, all a man wants is to grab hold of those wide hips and bury his bone somewhere... right up to his balls. I guess I would be described as "big boned." To go with my wide hips and big butt, I sport a pair of 38C-sized boobs. I can't claim that they are as firm and pert as a Playmate's. My nipples don't quite point up anymore, but at least they're not aimed at my toes. They are certainly not flat, and my nipples tend to point straight ahead. My nipples have wide, dark, aureole, with big, thick tips. I enjoy having them licked and suckled... but I really love it when they get bitten or pinched. And I like my biting and pinching hard. I have brown hair and brown eyes. My husband says I am beautiful, but without being vain, I think that "pretty" is more accurate. As for my husband, I find him to be an attractive and fit man. I also love him very much. However, since this is my story... and I am writing it, I want to be the star. So, at this point, that's all I'm going to say about him. Oh, by the way, as I am writing this it is now 10:07PM on Saturday, May 20st 1995, 19 hours after participating in my first "Gang Bang"... and I genuinely hope my husband will enable me to be the "star" of more gang bangs in the future. It was my husband's idea that I write this story and post it here. He suggested it to me this morning after I woke up naked, slightly-bruised, and sore, sprawled face down on the bed in a motel room. As I awoke, memories of the night before brought a slight smile to my face. I was still smiling as I lifted my head to find my husband laying beside me... studying me. He said he had never seen anything so sexy as me that morning. Exhausted by six hours of sex with seven men (that's right... 7!), and my body covered with the little bruise marks, and traces they left on me, I hardly thought of myself as sexy. My hair was an absolute horror, stiffened in places with dried semen. I stank of dried sweat, and felt the itch of semen that had run from my ass and pussy, and dried in my pubic hair. My knees, elbows, back, and butt, were rug-burned, my rectum was sore as hell, the lips of my vagina were tender and swollen. My boobs hurt, and my nipples felt raw. How, you ask, could I feel like smiling with my body in this condition? The odors, itches and sore feelings each reminded me of the pleasures I had experienced as they came into being. My husband and I later counted numerous hickeys on my breasts and shoulders, and minor bruises on my back, arms and breasts. They must have been bite marks. The inside of my thighs were chaffed and sore. My poor boobs. In the areas where there wasn't a hickey or a bite, there were finger marks and grab marks. My boobs had received some very heavy handling last night. I felt like every muscle in my legs, arms, back, and neck was pulled. In short, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. But, as I thought of the ecstasy I had experienced the night before, and saw the love and sexual desire in my husband's eyes as he looked at the poor wreck of his wife, I found the energy to give one more blow job. It was while I was sucking on my husband's cock that he suggested I write all this down. I was thinking I just might like to do that... as my husband came in my mouth. And thus... this story was born, as the final wad of semen from my first gang bang passed down my throat. This morning when we awoke, my husband bathed me and massaged me, gave gentle kisses to each of my bruises, to my boobs and pussy... and put me to back in bed for several hours of needed rest and recuperation. So, now that I have recovered a bit from my pleasure ordeal and we have enjoyed an in-room meal together... I am using my husband's handy laptop computer to tell the story of how all this came to pass. Oh, and by the way... as I write this, all I'm wearing is a thin shear robe, opened so my poor boobs are exposed. They are still too sore to stuff into a bra, and at this point I don't want anything touching my nipples. I just thought you might like to know (G). OK, here's how it all happened: My Husband and I have been happily married for 13 years now. We both have good jobs, live in a nice house in a quite neighborhood, and have two beautiful daughters ages 10 and 12. I am 36 years old and he is 35. We met in college and got married soon after graduation. We had some tough times at first, but we hung in there and now we have achieved pretty much what we had hoped we would. Our sex life had been satisfactory enough up until about a year ago, but then I noticed that my husband almost seemed to be getting bored of sex with me. Well perhaps bored isn't the right word. We still did it, just not as often and without as much enthusiasm and satisfaction. Around that same time that I found this adult BBS on his computer. He always uses the same passwords for everything, so I was able to log on and WOW, it was quite an eye-opener for me. It appeared that my husband had some sexual preferences that I had not known about. After searching thru his desk for a while, I found a box of disks containing .GIF and .TXT files. I viewed the gifs and read the texts, and discovered that my husband seemed to enjoy pictures of women with cum on their faces, and stories of wife-swapping and gang bangs. The cumshot pictures didn't really do anything for me, although I do find the smell, taste, and texture of semen to be exciting. I'd just never had it splashed all over my face. Seeing it splashed on other women's faces wasn't particularly exciting to me, but thinking about it being splashed on mine made my nipples harden. It was something I had never thought of. In my experience, semen ended up in my vagina or in my mouth. I kind of liked it in my mouth, and the taste of semen usually caused me to have a stronger orgasm. I had never mentioned that to my husband, and now I wondered if he had ever noticed. Looking at the pictures of the cum-splattered women, aware that my nipples were fully-erect and my juices had started to flow, I realized I might like to try that. I had a brief fantasy of my husband masturbating in front of me and squirting a HUGE load all over my face. He then would go down on me and eat me to an orgasm. All the while we would be looking in each others eyes, him with his tongue in my pussy, me with his load on my face. Based on the pictures that I had found, I thought he would love to see me like that. And as for me... smelling, feeling, and tasting his cum... my orgasm would be earth shattering. As I sat there at my husband's desk in front of his computer, spreading my legs and rubbing my crotch, I began to think of ways to rekindle our sex life. Actually, I had thought quite a bit about how to do just that even before finding my husband's cache of computer porn. I had thought that somehow I would have to make sex better for him... for us... but until finding the stuff in his computer, I admit I really didn't have any idea of how to do that. I knew that I would probably have to try something "kinky." That notion didn't necessarily revile me. I just didn't know what to try or how to bring up the subject. Finding my husband's secret "X files" was a great help. I found the stories about swapping and one-gal/multiple-guy sex very erotic, especially the ones written by women. In fact I quickly found that I don't much care for stories written by men at all. I suppose I had always known that some women and couples did such things, but I had thought of it as something "weird," something that "nice" girls didn't do. But after reading the experiences other women had had, it seemed to me that trying some of these "kinky" things might be a lot of fun. Some of the stories of gang bangs and wife-swapping, left me with mixed feelings. For one thing, I was amazed at the number of stories dealing with men who wanted to see their wives have sex with other men. I would never have thought that that would be a turn-on for any man. I always thought that men jealously guarded their wives... not passed them around. But, apparently some men (more than I had ever thought) do like to see their wives having sex with other men... and apparently my husband was one of them. At first... I really didn't understand that at all. I know men say they like their wives to be a saint in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom, but I thought that meant they wanted blow jobs, not gang bangs. Until this point, I had been strongly opposed to the idea of ever having sex with another man. At first, I was even a little repulsed that my husband even found such stories entertaining. But again, I found that the stories written by women, shed a different light on the subject than the stories written by men. The women's stories all seemed to show a loving relationship with their man, in which they were allowed to admit they enjoyed sex every bit as much as a man. The women in these stories were allowed to take their pleasure for their own sake... and not just settle for what they may get as a result of pleasing their man. I thought that these women took their freedom to extremes. But, after reading their accounts, it seemed like they had a hell of a good time. And, their husbands or boyfriends always seemed to be well-satisfied too. It appeared to me that the underlying theme of all these stories was that everyone involved loved it. And more importantly, the love-relationship of the couple or couples involved always seemed to be strengthened by the experience. I know that men fantasize about sex with women other than their wives when they masturbate, and I admit that women do the same. I'll have to admit that after reading those stories, I was curious about some of the experiences described by the women who had enjoyed them. As I thought about being the center of a gang bang experience, I even went so far as to think of a list of men I would welcome having present. Leaving out the movie stars I knew I wouldn't get, I surprised myself at the length of the list I came up with. I guess that goes to show that once the floodgates of your imagination are opened, there is no stopping you. And... as you already know, I did eventually get gang-banged. For "security reasons" none of the men on my mentally-generated list were actually involved in the gang bang... except my husband. While I am on the subject, I must address one glaring omission in all the female-authored orgy stories I read. Why didn't you ever mention how sore you were the next morning? Anyway, I came away from my reading with some definite ideas about how to put some excitement back into my marriage. At that time, I never really anticipated that my husband and I would do some of the things we have done. And, I certainly never thought I would end up having sex with 16 other men this past year, not counting last night's 6 strangers at one time. I realized that night what our problem was. It was simply that we both enjoyed sex... but that we had limited ourselves to experiencing sex within the guidelines and boundaries of what is considered "normal" or "acceptable." We were caught in the trap that says 'couples in love don't "fuck," they make love... and they don't bring others into their bed.' My husband obviously had some ideas about sex that he felt uncomfortable about sharing with me. No doubt he felt uncomfortable about them because I was his wife and the mother of his children. I can understand that. The sexual acts depicted in his .GIF and .TXT files were to him the sort of things a man would envision doing with some slut, not with his conservative wife. For example, my husband obviously liked to watch me blow him, but he always watched secretly. I mean, if I looked up and tried to catch his eye, he would turn away. I always found that disappointing, because I like to watch my husband's face as I suck him. I enjoy seeing him enjoy what I do to him... and I love to watch him come. But, apparently it embarrassed him that his wife was sucking his cock. I guess that goes a long way towards explaining why he never asked to fuck me in the ass. After reading his files, it was clear to me that he wanted to experience that sexual variation... and probably had wanted to do it since we first met. Twelve years was a long time to wait for my rectum, and on the night I offered it to him, he made up for lost time, believe me! If he had only asked, I would have told him that I had had it in the ass before our marriage... from another guy... while my husband (then boyfriend) and I were broken up for a few months, back in our college days. I truly enjoyed it back then, and I would have had no objections to handing him the Vaseline and rolling over for him... if he had just asked. But he didn't ask. When we finally did do it, and talked about it afterward, he said that he had always wanted to take me that way... but was afraid that asking me would somehow offend me and make me feel he was a pervert. Offend me? I shocked the hell out of him that night, and you know what? He loved it (and so did I!). I don't know if my rectum really feels any better for him than my vagina or my mouth, but he went to town on it, and came like a geyser. I think he just loved doing something "dirty" with his wife, and more important, watching his wife enjoy it. So... my mission beginning at that time (about 13 months ago) was to engage my husband in any and every form of sex play... including those sexual activities that for whatever reason, he thought I would be repulsed by... but which he admitted he really wanted to try. Discovering his collection of computer porn let me know what turned him on. It was now up to me to decide how to "break the ice" and get our sex life back on track. Well perhaps "back on track" is not the correct phrase. It was obvious our staid old ways weren't enough of a turn-on for him anymore. Really, after reading some of his stuff, I didn't really want to go back to just the same old thing either. The question was, should I confront him with what I had learned of his secret desires? Or should I just spring something new on him? I thought about how I could get him to come on my face. That would certainly be easy enough... but I wasn't sure if it would send a strong enough message. After all, it could happen anyway by accident. And in any event it would be over before he realized what was happening, and he might be too embarrassed to admire his handiwork. I decided I had to let him know I was definitely up for something new. I decided that day, that I would invite my husband to take me in my ass that very same night. When we hit the bed that night, I cuddled with him, caressed his chest and moved on down to his crotch. I began to suck his nuts before moving on to lick and suck his cock... getting it real hard. Then I simply rolled-over on my tummy and asked him to take me doggy-style. As he enthusiastically mounted me, I took the tube of lubricant I had been hiding under my pillow, and used a handful to coat his cock. Then, I looked over my shoulder and told him firmly... "I want that cock of yours up my ass tonight!" He was clearly startled for a moment, but he took me at my word and gently aimed his cock head between my ass cheeks. I winced a bit. It had been a long time since that passage had been used. "Slide it all in," I directed him. He did. Soon we were in a frantic ass-fuck that gave enormous pleasure to both of us. I had a body-convulsing orgasm when I felt his hot cum shoot up my backside. As we lay in each other's arms after, I told him I wanted him to take me that way AT LEAST once each week. And, I told him that from now on, when I gave him blow jobs, I wanted to have the light on and his head propped-up so I could have the pleasure of watching the expressions on his face as I gave him pleasure. Over the next few weeks he received several blow jobs... and I found that my pleasure was even better than before as I watched his eyes and facial expressions just prior to and during his explosions. Finally, one night I asked him the direct question... "what would you think about holding me in your arms and cuddling me while another man screwed me from behind?" There was a long pause. "Are you serious?" he asked. "I mean, that has been a fantasy of mine for years... but I never thought you would even consider it." That's when I finally told him that I had seen the .TXT and .GIF files in his computer... the ones from the adult BBS. He was embarrassed at first. I told him that at first I was not sure how to respond to this evidence of his sexual interests... but that as I read the reports of other women, I had gotten turned-on too. I looked him straight in the eyes... gave him a passionate kiss... and told him I could be persuaded to try such sexual variations... if it would please him... and if it could be done safely and discretely... and ONLY IF HE wanted to do it. I wanted to assure him that he was in charge. Well, after that conversation, we had a frantic "fuck" that left us both really satisfied. During the following days, we began to plot how we would go about involving other guys in our sex life. First off, we decided that for us, such activities had to be away from our home (because of our daughters... neighbors... friends... and business acquaintances). Also, we decided that we wanted to remain anonymous to any men we met. That meant that most of our activities had to be out of town. My husband found an adult store that had lots of contact-for-sex magazines and newspapers. He brought them home, and at night we would go through them. We found that such publications gave us lots of potential guys for threesomes. We had about six very pleasant threesomes with a variety of guys (different ages, different sizes (in all respects), different techniques, and different personalities. During most of those initial encounters, I had my husband cuddle, caress and neck with me while the other guy gave me oral sex... and then screwed me. I must admit, I enjoyed them ALL! After the extra guy had left, my husband and I always had another round of great sex. Eventually, my husband suggested that I suck-off the other guy while he screwed me from various positions. Finally (after I had been fantasizing about it for some time) my husband suggested that he screw my ass while the other guy simultaneously screw my pussy. I quickly agreed. What a feeling... having one cock explode up my ass about the same time as another cock is spraying my pussy walls! Boy... that really gives me a wonderful orgasm. I have got to tell you... I REALLY enjoy being sandwiched! This has proven to be one of our all-time greatest forms of shared sexual pleasure. Sometimes I like laying on top of my husband (either face-up or face-down) when the other guy enters me while standing at the side of the bed or kneeling at the foot of the bed. Sometimes I enjoy having us all lay on our sides. A few times my husband has even joined the other guy (from behind me) as they both filled my pussy with their cocks... and ultimately with their sperm. That creates a VERY full feeling for me and for them... as their cocks rub along each other... and both expand just before they flood my pussy with their mixed juices. Eventually, my husband suggested that I pretend to be a hooker in an upscale motel lounge while he watched me pick-up a guy. A couple of those times he joined me in taking the guy back to our room. On other occasions, he had me take them back alone (pretending to be by myself). Then, after the guy left, he joined me in the room for another round of great sex while I told him every detail of the just-finished encounter. One time he walked in while the guy was still there. Boy was that guy surprised when I introduced him as my husband. I simply told the guy to relax, and keep eating me while my husband took off his clothes so he could join us. A bit hesitant at first, he was assured by my husband that everything was OK, and the guy resumed a great oral treat for my pussy. Soon my husband joined us and necked with me until my body rocked with a giant orgasm from our new friend's great tongue. Then they took turns getting blow jobs from me... and screwing my brains out! Most of our threesome or "hooker" experiences are one-time affairs... for security reasons. We did meet one 22-year-old guy who has joined us several times. Although he tends to get off too fast at first... after I give him a blow job or two, he tends to be a slower, gentle lover. It is kind of special for an "old" gal like me to have a lean young stud sucking and fucking me. He was the first "extra guy" that my husband invited to use my "back door." This lean-built kid also is equipped with an extra-long "lean" (slender) cock. My husband and I discussed it in advance. I decided to treat the kid to an "Around The World" experience. Shortly after I had him nude in the motel bed, my husband made an excuse to leave for a while... and he headed for the bar for a few drinks. I crawled down the young man's body and engulfed his cock in my mouth. Just as I had hoped, he used the pillows to prop himself up so he could watch my service his long, slender dick. Our eyes studied each other as I began sucking his cock deeper and deeper into my mouth and throat. I guess because his cock was slender and long, I found it easy to take the head of his cock right down my throat. I took his hand and placed it against the front of my throat... so he could feel the head of his own cock as it plunged up and down my oral channel. That really turned him on. Me too! It didn't take long before the shaft of his cock expanded (almost uncomfortably for me) and I knew he was about to explode. I lifted my head slightly (still watching his now-somewhat-glassy eyes) and then drove my face down to the base of his cock... driving his cock as deeply as possible down my throat. That did it! He produced a huge load that nearly choked me as I tried to swallow it all. After we rested a while, he ate me to a very pleasant orgasm. Then he lifted my legs over his shoulders and he shoved his renewed cock into my pussy. It doesn't seem to take this kid long to regain a rigid hard-on. He was still pumping me when my husband joined us. My husband put a reassuring hand on his shoulder, kissed me passionately, and began to remove his clothes. Just as my husband lay down next to me to fondle my breasts and kiss my nipples, a very satisfying orgasm rippled through my body... and my younger lover filled my pussy with his spunk. He dropped my legs to the bed, and stretched out next to me... opposite my husband. When my normal breathing returned, I cuddled with my husband and we necked. Soon I felt the young man's breath on the back of my neck, and I knew he was laying on his side, facing me. He began to rub my back... occasionally reaching around to palm one of my breasts in his hand while using his thumb to tweak my nipple. I knew the kid had never before experienced anal sex. This was it, I decided. Time to complete his "Around The World" experience. I reached back, found his cock resting near my backside, and started to stroke him to another hard-on. All this time my husband and I (both knowing of my plan) smiled into each other's eyes and showered each other with kisses on each other's lips, cheeks and neck. Finally, when I felt that the young man's cock was at full hardness, I turned my head and told him I was about to give him a new experience. My husband handed me a small tube of lubricant. I filled the palm of my hand with a glob, stroked the young man's hard cock, and pressed the remaining lubricant between my ass cheeks and up into my anus. "That's where I want you to put your cock this time," I told him... as I pressed my buttocks against his youthful dick. I didn't have to tell him twice. As my husband and I resumed our necking and caressing, I felt the tip of the young man's cock press between my ass cheeks and through the outer ring of my anus. I pushed back. My pressure and the abundant lubricant allowed his cock to slide in a few inches. He stayed there... not moving for a few moments. "Does it hurt?" he asked. "It feels good," I assured him. "Please... drive it all the way in." With that assurance, he pressed himself deeper into me... then began to stroke in and out. "Wow!" he exclaimed. "I can't believe how good this feels. I have never done this before. You are so tight back here... and my cock feels like it is being firmly clutched and massaged by a velvet-gloved hand as it glides against your inner walls." He began to drive more deeply with each thrust until I could feel his pubic bone press into the flesh of my butt on each stroke. I raised my upper leg slightly, allowing my hand to reach under. I could feel his young cock as it entered and returned from the tight ring of my anus. On one firm inward thrust, I cupped his balls in the palm of my hand, gently pulled them forward, and allowed my leg to drop back down... effectively trapping his nuts between my legs, within my gentle grasp. This held him deep inside me. As he lay there, unable to withdraw, I worked my rectal muscles in a squeeze and release action that he seemed to enjoy. I heard a breathy "Oh my God," escape his lips just behind my ears. As I released my grip on his nuts, he withdrew to begin a series of pounding drives up my anal passage. It was not long before I could feel his heat grow within me... and his slender dick expand. I whispered into my husband's ear that he was about to climax way up inside me... and I was about to explode too. I bit into my husband's shoulder as a building wave of pleasure repeatedly rippled through my body... until I shrieked, "I'm coming... it feels sooooo good!' I am sure that as my pleasure grew, I thrust my butt back tightly against him, and involuntarily contracted my already-tight sphincter muscle around his engorged cock He let loose with repeated, heavy squirts of his spunk very deep up my backside... and I nearly blacked-out. I collapsed against my husband. The young man collapsed against my back. When we recovered, the first thing I noticed was the trickle of blood on my dear husband's shoulder... where I had bit him as I tried to stifle my yells of pleasure. I rubbed my finger through the blood, held it up for him to see, and we both started to giggle. The young man's cock was withered by now, and began to slide out of me. He rolled onto his back next to me. I rolled over, propped myself on my elbow and looked into his sweat-covered face. "What do you think," I asked him. "Wow," he exclaimed... "I never knew that anal sex could be so intense... so wonderful feeling. I hope I didn't hurt you." I assured him that he hadn't. I told him it was great for me too! I told him he had just been initiated into his first "Round The World" sexual experience. He grinned his approval. He is one guy we have gotten together with several times, rather than just once. Finally, my husband and I started talking about me taking on several guys at once. He asked if such an idea turned me on. Before giving me any time to reply, he assured me that such an experience would be a super turn-on for him... and one he would like to see me try it. I thought about it, and finally agreed that it was worth a try. It took us a while to get everything set up. We rented a large motel room in a metropolitan city some distance from our home... and pretended to go on a week-end vacation. Our neighbors watched our daughters, and we headed out early on a Friday. By 8 PM that night, my husband was meeting our invited guys in the motel's bar while I was up in the room making myself as pretty as possible. At 9 PM I joined the guys and my husband introduced me to each of them. Soon I found myself dancing briefly with each of our SIX new male friends. I had worn no panties nor bra... and a rather revealing, low-cut dress. All of the guys seemed to like what they were seeing. At one point back at the table, I felt a hand on my leg, moving up under my dress toward my crotch. Soon the guy on the other side was doing the same thing. Obviously they could both feel the wetness of my bare pussy lips. The two guys winked at each other and turned to the others to quietly announce that I was definitely ready... showing their wet fingers as proof. I found myself blushing. I finished my drink (to fortify myself), and told them to follow me to the room in 30 minutes. That gave me time to take a quick shower, get freshened-up, change into a sheer negligee, dim the lights, and be ready to meet them at the door when they arrived. I noticed that my body trembled in anticipation... and seemed extra hot... as I walked back to our room. When they did arrive, my husband invited them all to shed their clothes right away, while he proceeded to give me a deep tongue-kiss and open the front of my negligee. Before coming to the room, he had already told them that I loved to receive oral sex, anal sex, and semi-rough play with my sensitive nipples and breasts. He had also assured them that they could expect some great blow jobs from me. "Pace yourselves," he told them. "We've got all night!" As I said earlier, that wonderful experience was less than 24 hours ago. I can't tell you how many times I came... how much tasty sperm was pumped into my mouth... how many times the guys branded the insides of my pussy and ass with their hot shots of molten cum. Between rounds, my husband cuddled, caressed and necked with me. Sometimes he held me in his arms while one of the guys would stand at the side of the bed and drive his hard cock into me. Once he lay in a 69-position next to me on the bed... both of us on our sides... and I sucked on him while someone with a bigger-than-average cock stroked in and out of my pussy from a standing position at the side of the bed behind me. On that particular occasion, my husband used his tongue to tantalize my clit while the other guy's cock pumped in and out at an increasing pace. When the cock within me exploded, I exploded too... and darned near bit my husband's cock. That one was truly memorable. I collapsed... and we had to take a brief break while I recovered. Throughout the night, I kept my husband hard with my mouth and hands... and he frequently dipped his stick into my well-used pussy for a few well-lubed strokes... but he refused to climax all this time. He told me later that it was a real turn-on to let his cock slide through the other guys' cum within my pussy. It was not until all the guys had left (some 6 hours after they had arrived in our room) that my husband gently cradled me in his arms and slipped his cock into me for a wild fuck that emptied all his pent-up sperm and took me over the top for one last time. With that, we turned-off the lights and fell asleep. Well... tonight, my husband and I will have a leisurely dinner and go back to our room to enjoy each other as we contemplate our memories of last night's special event. Then, tomorrow I have to put myself back together so I won't look too bad when we fly back home.