Jet Lag

We left Las Vegas Tuesday, the 19th 8:00 am, and arrived in France the 20th at noon. We had 2 layovers in Washington/Dulles, and Frankfort Germany. People told us about the jet lag problem and how to get over it. We got advice from Susan’s brother in law, who travels internationally regularly. He told us to take a sleeping pill on the plane, and you’ll be rested when you get there. Then you can stay awake until local bedtime. We thought we were so smart, we were going to beat the jet lag. It was not going to be a problem for us…. The sleeping pill didn’t work. We didn’t fall asleep, no matter how long we tried. We don’t use sleeping pills often at all, but the timing was all wrong. To make a long story short… We stayed awake until 9:00 pm, then slept off and on, and woke up at 3:30-5:30 am ish… then we were woken suddenly by voices speaking French very loudly, then the phone ringing continually. We wanted to beat up someone because we were finally sleeping well, when Mom came to tell us that it was 11:00. Can you believe we slept that late!! Weird… so the moral of the story, don’t think your too smart for a problem you’ve never encountered before, and for those of you who have to see me when we get back, ignore me for 2 days, because now I really do understand jet lag.