16:28 (I think....) After eight grueling hours we finally made it to Europe. I was finally in Europe, which has been a lifelong dream of mine. I just didn't make it out of the airport. Bummer. We just flew right through a day, too. It was light out when I left Detroit, it got dark for about 5 hours, then it was light again. We just flew through a whole day, backwards. I have a bad feeling this is going to mess up my biological clock more than I realize. I got a chance to see enough of Amsterdam through the plane window and the airport windows that I decided I want to come back in the summertime. :o)
I am now 6 hours ahead of Michigan time. Local time here is 16:28 but my body thinks it's 10:28am. So far I've kept my watch on Michigan time so I can look down and know what my family is doing. It helps me stay connected. OKay, so it's also partly due to the fact that I can't remember how to reset the darn thing. Oops! Right now it's just taunting me in the fact that I should have just woken up from a full night's sleep.
20:45- We're cruising in another huge plane from Amsterdam to Nairobi. This is another 8.5 hour flight. I'm 36,000 feet over northern Africa, this time in a Boeing 747-400 (meaning there are about 400 passengers on this plane). We're going at a ground speed of over 600 miles an hour. It's amazing that something this large can fly this high and this fast. This thing is a beast. We flew over Italy, where some of my descendants are from, but it was cloudy so I got to see nothing. Bummer. I fell asleep for a couple of hours of much-needed sleep and woke up as we were crossing over the Nile River. The Nile River! Never did I think I'd actually see it with my own eyes. I just took a photo of it through the window. It's surreal. In a handful of hours (at 20:30 Kenya time) I will be standing in East Africa. Wow. Even in my dizzy, disoriented state this is the coolest trip ever!
Time to get up and stretch again. :o)
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