3 AM and I'm still awake....

Yep, jetlag has offically hit us. It is 3:12 am and both Jean-Pierre and I are awake. The kids both woke up at 12:30 (very thoughtful of them to wake up at the same time don't you think?) and neither parent was able to fall back asleep afterwards. We've actually gotten a lot done while we've been up. Paid some bills, applied for EI, put some stuff away, started another load of laundry :-).

I realized (as I lay in bed thinking about everything and nothing) that I didn't put any details on the blog about the flight home. We left Beijing around 5:30. Since it was super time, the kids were grumpy waiting to board the plane, but once we were fed they were both ready to go to sleep. They both slept the vast majority of the international flight. I woke Eva up about 2 hours before the plane landed so she could eat some breakfast. She then watched TV for the rest of the ride. She laughed her head off watching a new show by the creaters of the Teletubies. The truth is, I'm not too sure what Jie-Jie did during the flight. Jean-Pierre and Jie-Jie were sitting off to the side and two rows up from us so I didn't see my son for the entire international flight. Since this is Jie-Jie's blog I'll have to get the details from Jean-Pierre and record Jie-Jie's first long flying adventure. We had four hours in Vancouver before our domestic flight.

It took us forever to get through immigration. We didn't hurry off the plane (huge, huge mistake) and by the time we got to immigration it was lunch time so they had 3 (maybe 4) counters open. Painful. Added to that, I had a bad reaction to the eggs on the plane. I won't gross you out with the details, let's just say I wasn't feeling good. After we had waited for about an hour, one of the agents called us up to the front of the line. I'm not sure why we were allowed to jump ahead since everyone else had been waiting too, but we didn't ask any questions. I think the agent was actually going on a break or finishing for the day because he put closed on his sign before he called us over.

The kids stayed awake while we waited to board our flight out of Vancouver. Once on the plane, Jie-Jie screamed and cried, but both kids were dead alseep the moment the wheels came off the tarmack (sorry Teri). It was like magic. The wheels come up on the plane and boom the kids fall asleep. Can you say, 'Lovely'?

So, we'll have to force ourselves onto a schedule starting tomorrow so we can start to feel better sooner. Up at 7:30, breakfast by 8:00, lunch at noon, naps at 12:30, supper......ahhh, I'm exhausted just thinking about it :-)).