Hitting the Ground Running

We are in USA now.  Levi as always travelled like a complete legend!  It is the worst possible flight time, that one from Brisbane to LA.  It flies at 11am.  It means that Levi wakes early because he is excited and then we get on the flight.  For the first nine hours of the flight he's not even tired and after that he still isn't because now he hasn't done anything but sit on his bottom and watch movies for the last nine hours!  Finally about ten hours into the flight I get him to sleep and literally one hour after that they are turning on the lights and bringing in breakfast.  I managed to have Levi sleep though much of that but it was still an effort to keep him asleep.  At the thirteen hour mark we are getting off the plane!  Now he has had about (quite literally) two hours of sleep.  Because we had loads of time in LAX and because our next flight was about five hours away, customs and immigration was a breeze.  Our bags were off first and we got waved through everywhere.  No time was killed.

We then killed time by playing checkers and chess on the floor of LAX.  Neither of us was hungry (our bodies thought it was the wee hours of the morn, regardless of what the clock said).  Finally we went LA to Portland and then Portland to Medford.  Both Levi and I slept the entire LA, Portland leg, giving us both two hours of sleep.  By the time we got to bed that night it had been about a 32 hour stretch, where I had two hours and Levi four hours, of sleep.  We collapsed into bed that night, barely unpacking!  It was not pretty!

Today was party day!  I got a drive through coffee, that I have been craving since, oh, last visit! Then we went on to Laurie's house where she was hosting the big birthday bash.  Levi is in heaven because he is able to play with his brothers the whole time and loved being the center of attention.  The gifts were a bonus as well.  But for Levi it is always about the people and he loved it all.  They played in the pool, which is amazing, because the water temperature was about 74 F.  I don't go in unless it's about bath water and 74 is a long way from bath water! 

For me jet lag is less about sleep and more about the odd sensory experience of expecting silence but getting noise and light!  It is about being regulated for night time but getting day.  I am adjusting.  I think I am adjusting faster each time, but these first few days are always a little off.