The Saga of Getting Over Jet Lag

Hi Guys,

Well, I made it until about 5 yesterday before I became desperate for a nap. We had had a busy morning and afternoon of running errands in the rain (did I mention it is rainy season? Ha, one of our first purchases was an umbrella since it seems that all of ours got packed up by the movers and won't get here until the end of July...which is also, coincidentally the end of rainy season. Figures!) and I was beat. I knew napping was a dangerous idea if I ever want to get over my jet lag so it was just going to be a quick 20 minute power nap...

45 minutes later Nick has to literally pull me off the bed so I wake up. Gah it felt like I was coming out of a coma, I so didn't want to wake up yet. I was groggy the rest of the evening and the continuous rain didn't help either. We had dinner at this Korean BBQ place somewhere in Iwakuni (I will be amazed the day I can finally have a clear map of this place in my head) which, of course, was an adventure.

The restaurant was really busy and so, being Japan and all, they had an electronic check-in machine, all in Japanese. We must have stood there and looked at this machine for 3 full minutes taking in all the Japanese instructions. Finally we hesitantly started pressing some buttons, following some numbered pictures by the side of the screen. After doing exactly as the photos detailed (meaning we pressed exactly the same buttons indicated) we realized we had just made a reservation for 2 adults and one child! Haha oops! But we were actually pretty proud of ourselves for only being off by one person.

Anyways, on with the story. Dinner was tasty- it was the kind of BBQ where they bring out the raw meat and then you cook it yourself in the middle of your table. The menu had some FANTASTIC Engrish and very interesting menu items- including cow tongue, intestine, and aorta. Yum. I wasn't feeling adventurous enough quite yet so we stuck to some normal cuts of meat.

It was now the ripe old hour of 9 pm and I was beat...again. So we headed home where I promptly fell asleep.

And then woke up, wide awake, at 5:45 am. Yay. It could be worse, I suppose, but I just hope to soon have my normal sleeping schedule back.

Ta for now, Blogosphere!