02.03.09 - Arrival and Jetlag at its finest!!!
After a long flight we arrived half an hour earlier in Frankfurt.
Before we went to get our baggage we said good-bye to Roger, Kati and Gabi. They went on to Stuttgart by train and had to retrieve their baggage at a different place.
Our baggage was already circling and we only had to pick it up and haul it over to the hotel. The bed looked so inviting that we decided to rest a bit before we went back to the airport to get our boarding passes for the flight back to Mallorca at 6:30 am. Well, we all woke up three hours later - a bit less exhausted.
After having finished everything we set out to do we stopped for a final night cap at the hotels tower lounge. Very tired we went to bed at around 10 pm knowing that we would have to get up at 5 am.
Well, by 3 am everyone was awake and unable to fall asleep again. Jetlag feels really strange - your mind is fully awake and operating at 150% while the rest of your whole body lags hopelessly behind.
A bit after 4:30 am we decided to get up and get dressed. Being up and walking around helped to “feel” more awake. We had an easy-peacy fast flight of only 2 hours when we finally arrived in Mallorca. Wolfgang picked us up from the airport and drove us home.
Krümel our cat was first surprised to see us but then very happy and did not move from our side. I started unpacking and the boys started playing with their toys (Felix and Max with Legos and Thomas with his new SlingBox).
At around 4 pm I noticed that the boys were really quiet. When I looked I saw Felix asleep on the sofa while Max had fallen asleep while sitting and looking at a new airplane magazine. We decided to let them sleep for another half an hour before we would wake them again.
What can I say - at 3 am Felix and myself were awake again unable to sleep. Max was lucky - he seemed to have slept all night. Thomas only woke up for half an hour. Felix fell asleep after being up for an hour. The last time I checked the alarm clock it was 6:30 am - then I was fast-asleep. I could not believe it when the alarm woke me again at 7:30 am. All day today, I ran on emergency energy-saving mode.
We’ll see if it is any better tonight.