Jet Lag is Weird

I'm back from my vacation and fighting jet lag. Jet lag is such a strange thing isn't it?

I fly to Europe fairly often and I find that no matter whether I'm coming or going, the same weird things happen to me every time for the first few days. My symptoms include the following:

1) I get the EXTREME munchies at 3 am and usually end up consuming large amounts of cheese to drive off the hunger.

2) I wake up at 5:30am and read a book. I have tried various books to stop this but alas no genre seems to curb it!

3) I scare my friends by suddenly becoming a perky morning-person. This is possibly the worst of all my symptoms; my poor friends live on tenterhooks for the first few days until I finally become my groggy self.

4) I relive my old university skills of staying up late and use bullying tactics to get the others around me to do the same. Sadly, they all become pumpkins at midnight.

5) I'm wide awake at sleepy-time and sleepy at wide-awake time. O_o

Packing, packing, packing...

...or is it deciding, deciding, deciding...?

I leave for my vacation to the UK (and a short trip to Holland sandwiched in between) tomorrow so I am busy packing today - no this is not a last minute thing for me- I've been doing laundry in preparation for this all week! My problem with packing is always deciding what to take and how much to take. It's a good thing that the airline limits me to 20kg!



Fortunately, I always have a willing helper (as you can see).

I am really looking forward to this trip. I used to live in the UK, so it'll be great to see all of my old friends. The UK is like my second home, and the people there are my second family. The great thing about knowing people in a location is that your vacation is just that much more off the beaten track. I will be doing some things that most visitors to the UK never do! Maybe I can inspire some people to try a little something different the next time they are in the UK.

I am going to be blogging during this trip because I want to share some of the things that I love about the UK and Holland. Visit here again to see what I've been up to!