Sweet swim on smooth water and more flip flops

It felt so good to get back in the water after, gosh, over a week. I did my swim at 7:30 tonight and I was the first on in the pool for the lap swim. Its such an awesome sensation to take the first strokes in smooth water. Everything is crystal clear, calm and it seems like you could swim perfectly...forever. Then you flip to come back and the light is scattered all over place from the waves above, moment over. Had a good swim tonight, a little tuckered out by the end and still can't seem to get the flip turns down. I have a couple good scrapes on my right elbow from hitting the bottom of the pool, my flip is still going too deep. Also got a lot of water up my nose on one turn which, due to the way your muscles react to this, seem to some how make breathing difficult/awkward for a few strokes. The joys of learning flip turns.