rebekah.rebel
Day 174: Jetlag
Thursday
June 23, 2011
Finally made it home this morning. Didn't sleep much last night. Too much caffeine. And I knew I needed to get up real early. Not so good at sleeping in those situations. I woke up about every half hour, and by 4am I couldn't go back to sleep. We got down to the lobby at 5:15, checked out and got on our shuttle back to the airport. Got through everything without too many complications, got our first Starbucks in a month (pretty disappointing after three weeks of Italian cappuccinos and pastries...) and waited for our flight. When we finally got to Denver, Audrey, Gene and I were met at the airport by Sam and Sarah. We all rode home together, telling stories of our trip on the drive. Audrey dropped me off with all my luggage at home. I got to say hi to the family and relax for a bit before Josh came by. He had flown into Colorado Springs instead of Denver, and gotten in last night (his plane didn’t sit on the ground for four hours - we actually watched it take off next to us...). He wanted to come up and have lunch with everyone, so we all headed out to meet everyone again for a meal at Cafe Mexicali. Free refills and ice! :) Thank goodness for Mexican food too. One of the things I definitely learned to appreciate about the U.S. while I was gone is the variety of food we have easily accessible. I love having so many different genres - not just “American” hamburgers, hot dogs and fried chicken for every meal... The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I made myself stay up til 9:30 or ten to keep from messing up my sleep schedule too much more, but I think that layover did me in. Missing Italy, but glad to be home.
Day 174: Jetlag
Thursday
June 23, 2011
Finally made it home this morning. Didn't sleep much last night. Too much caffeine. And I knew I needed to get up real early. Not so good at sleeping in those situations. I woke up about every half hour, and by 4am I couldn't go back to sleep. We got down to the lobby at 5:15, checked out and got on our shuttle back to the airport. Got through everything without too many complications, got our first Starbucks in a month (pretty disappointing after three weeks of Italian cappuccinos and pastries...) and waited for our flight. When we finally got to Denver, Audrey, Gene and I were met at the airport by Sam and Sarah. We all rode home together, telling stories of our trip on the drive. Audrey dropped me off with all my luggage at home. I got to say hi to the family and relax for a bit before Josh came by. He had flown into Colorado Springs instead of Denver, and gotten in last night (his plane didn’t sit on the ground for four hours - we actually watched it take off next to us...). He wanted to come up and have lunch with everyone, so we all headed out to meet everyone again for a meal at Cafe Mexicali. Free refills and ice! :) Thank goodness for Mexican food too. One of the things I definitely learned to appreciate about the U.S. while I was gone is the variety of food we have easily accessible. I love having so many different genres - not just “American” hamburgers, hot dogs and fried chicken for every meal... The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I made myself stay up til 9:30 or ten to keep from messing up my sleep schedule too much more, but I think that layover did me in. Missing Italy, but glad to be home.