Jet Lag

We have all been suffering from some serious jet lag. Baby girl was up at midnight. Mommy stayed up with her til about 2 am and then put her back down to sleep. The other two kids got up around 4 am.

We went and saw family this morning and stayed til early afternoon. Two of the kids crashed as soon as we got in the car to drive home. The other one fell asleep as soon as we told her to lie down. Mommy and Daddy also laid down for a nap. When Mommy woke up, she realized it was already 7 pm! Mommy woke everyone else up. The kids stayed up til about 11 pm. Mommy is hoping that the kids will soon be on a more regular schedule.

Here are a few pics from our Taiwan trip...more to come later!


Our little Audrey looking so happy on the 13.5 hr.
flight from Houston to Tokyo. This pic was taken at
the tail end of the flight.


Hanging out at the Tokyo airport waiting for
the next flight.


Visit with my aunt, cousins, and my cousin's 2 kids.
It sure is difficult to get a good pic when young kids
are involved.


Enjoying a morning snack outside the 7-Eleven
in Taipei City.

Back

We just got back yesterday afternoon from a 2-week trip to Taiwan. It was a fun trip overall. Mommy and Daddy spent quite a bit of time preparing for the trip. All the prep work paid off though. The kids survived the long plane rides and airport waits extremely well. Daddy and Mommy were both pleasantly surprised. We of course expected the worst, but it really wasn't too bad.

The trip itself was a bit fast-paced because Mommy's parents came on the trip too and had a full agenda planned for each day. Since Nai-Nai and Ye-Ye haven't been back to Taiwan in over 35 years, they had a lot of family they wanted to see. We traveled all over the eastern side of Taiwan from Taipei to Kaohsiung.

We are all seriously jet-lagged. The crossing multiple time zones thing has really messed up our internal clocks. The kids got up at 2am this morning. Mommy and Daddy made them go back to their rooms til about 4:00am or so.

In Taiwan, the kids got up at 2am and then 3-4 am and then 5 am. It took them about a week to get back to a normal sleep schedule. Now Mommy suspects it will take at least another week for the kids to get back to a normal sleep/wake cycle.

Mommy is still downloading and organizing pics so more info and pics are forthcoming. Now if Mommy could just get some sleep....