Managed to get my painting home... I had to take it off the wooden frame, roll it up and, well, the packing part is kind of a long story. I spent a few days worrying about how I was going to get a tube to carry on the plane, so a friend and I went down to the place I got the picture and there was no one around, so I just grabbed a tube out of the back room. It was a nice rigged piece of PVC that was taped up. When I got it home I realized it was too long, so I cut it and well because I'm so handy, I cut it too short... So the painting ended up getting rolled and crammed into my checked luggage. It made it home with only a few injuries. I laid it flat on the table until I took it to the frame place. Well I go in and just want a wooden frame for the painting to be wrapped around, no actual frame. Ok, guess how much. $140. Yup, that is freaking crazy. None-the-less I still love it. Now I just have to convince my parents to store it for me until I decide when and where to "settle down". So here it is again. The painting that made it half way around the world.