hello jet lag
well here i am, it is 12:30am and i’m wide awake despite efforts to sleep! I imagine the lack of air conditioning in the hotel has something to do with it as well. Luckily Paige sleeps soundly next to me, I think the heat and excitement has her more worn out than me. I have the heat but less on the excitement front.
So far everything is running smoothly. Paige is excited about everything and asks some great questions about things I apparently never think about. Why do we have passports? How do planes fly? Why do we keep waking up like this? Explaining jet lag has been one of the most difficult things. She understands the time difference but doesn’t understand why she keeps waking up, or why I wanted us to try to stay up until at least 7pm tonight. Makes me have to use the brain.
All of our flights and connections went well, getting the bus to the central train station in Milan from the airport was a breeze, finding the city bus to take to our hotel was even easy. I can never say enough good things about Rick Steves, he seems to always have all the details anyone would need for getting around and has been a tremendous help to us already on this trip!
It is HOT. For some reason I was not expecting it to me this hot in Milan. I think maybe I was hoping that since we are closer to the Alps up here it wouldn’t be so bad. It is in the 90s, but looks like storms coming our way on Saturday and it will drop down into the 80s. Checking Venice weather for next week looks like it will be cooler there…I’m glad cause as I’ve gotten older my heat tolerance has plummeted!
Traveling with a child has been an interesting experience so far. I am reminded of the first time I traveled abroad and everything was new and awe inspiring. From the different looking police cars to the swarms of pigeons in the squares she is soaking it all in and seems to be having a good time. It also takes more energy from me! I am used to a very quiet existence, insert a 10 year old who talks nonstop and that changes!
So, as far as day 1 is concerned we are good :) Only about 23 more to go!
more later…