It's been a wild couple of days for the members of the Patriots who are representing the AFC in the Pro Bowl. They traveled from New Orleans to Boston, then all the way to Hawaii (with a stop in Orlando for Tom Brady) in a little more than 48 hours.

Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law, Troy Brown and Brady left Boston after New England's victory parade on Tuesday, and arrived in Honolulu at 1 a.m. Wednesday after a 10-hour flight from Boston on Patriots owner Bob Kraft's private plane.

A little over eight hours later, they stepped onto the field at Aloha Stadium as Super Bowl champions.

	Tom Brady will look to follow up his MVP performance in the Pro Bowl with a victory for the AFC on Saturday.

"It was nice to finally get off that airplane. That was a long trip from New England," Brady said. "We were at that parade and then got on the flight out to here and it's nice to be out here in this beautiful sun. It feels great to finally feel the sun."

The 10-hour flight was filled mostly with reminiscing about the season, playing cards and a little fun at the expense of Brady.

"It was just us guys on the plane. We talked, got on Brady a little a bit because he's the young guy in the group," said Brown. "Lawyer harassed him the most. We also played a little cards and watched a couple of movies."

While all four admitted to being tired and looking forward to some rest and relaxation, it's a pretty safe bet that Milloy, Law, Brown and Brady wouldn't trade anything they've experienced since beating the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI for an extra hour of sleep.

One thing that was apparent immediately as practice started was that the four Patriots had a different air about them. Players were coming up to all four of them with regularity, and fans were constantly calling out their names.

"After going eight years of being pretty much unnoticed and now, you have the Super Bowl champion tag attached to your name, it just amazes me how much people recognize me now, even the guys I've played with," Brown said. "I'm still going up to guys and saying 'Hey, my name is Troy,' and they're all saying 'I already know that.' That's one of the biggest things that I've noticed is that guys already recognize you."

For Milloy, the biggest difference he noticed Tuesday is in the way he feels about himself and not the way he is perceived by all of his teammates in Hawaii.

"For the first time in my career I'm here (In Hawaii) and I feel complete as a player," Milloy said when asked whether it felt different to be at the Pro Bowl as a world champion.

"You can receive all the individual accolades you want, but the bottom line is that football is a team game," he said. "That's what we did -- we accomplished the total team achievement. I just feel complete right now."

Law said that he could tell that while there was probably a bit of jealousy among some of the players in the Pro Bowl, and maybe even a little bit of disbelief that the Patriots won, for the most part there was respect.

"I think we do have the respect from the players," Law said. "If anybody had any doubt, they can't do anything but shake our hands and say congratulations.

"Even if in the back of their minds they might be thinking 'it could have been us or it should have been us.' For the most part, it's all well-wishing."

From the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday to arriving in Hawaii just past midnight Tuesday, it's been a wild ride for Lawyer Milloy, Troy Brown, Ty Law and Tom Brady.

"It was long and I'm tired. I'm all worn out," Milloy said. "But this is what it's all about."

Peter Lawrence-Riddell is the assistant NFL editor for ESPN.com