Back England

Jet lag
A-month-long holiday is over and we arrived back England the day before yesterday and so far we are still experiencing the jet lag. It's 4am in the morning and I am writing the blog because I can't sleep any longer!!! Terry, Daniel and me are all awake at the moment.It must be near the lunch time in the Far East and we are still operating on the HK time! Yesterday we were so tired that we went to bed 5pm falling asleep straight away without bothering any supper. I myself don't normally experience the jet lag much when I travel on my own (I'd just get on with things straight away to local time). but this time it's different, we travelled with a baby, it's hard for a baby to cope with the disrupted routine, we try to suite our schedule to Daniel's as possible as we can. Daniel coped better for the outbound journey as the outbound flight was 8pm in the evening, which is his routine time to go to sleep. He went to sleep quickly after he'd been put in the bassinet and slept quite well, the first night in Hongkong his jet lag wasn't that obvious though he went to sleep about 2am, as we've been out for dinner quite late that night it worked out not that bad! But the inbound journey wasn't that smoothly! To start with we nearly missed our flight on Wednesday night in Hongkong...

Nearly Miss Flight...
On our last day (Wednesday) in HK we were so relaxed that we lost track of date, we didn't realise it's our last day of holiday until an hour before the pre-booked airport shuttle bus picking time...
Our return flight from HK was due on 1.30am on 11th April. Upon arrival HK from Kunmimg, we booked the airport shuttle bus for 10th April 10pm to pick up us from the hotel. We also booked hotel room for the last day even we was not going to sleep that night, which probably caused the confusion. On the entire Wednesday the thought of packing and getting ready to go never occurred to us until we finished dinner in the hotel restaurant and got back to the room. Terry was sitting in front of the balcony window looking the night view of Vitoria Harbour, he suddenly asked me what day today is, I said it's Wednesday, Then he said he's due back to work on Thursday, how come we are still here? then he checked the date on his watch it was 10th of April and it was 8.30pm already, an hour and half before the bus, Dopey as we are!! but no panic, we started packing immediately, I packed Daniel's stuff and got him ready while Terry packing our main suitcase, we just managed to made it and three was still 15 minutes left after we checked out hotel before the bus. Poor Daniel, he expected to go to sleep after the dinner, got upset to find out being strapped in to the buggy again... We could have missed the flight as we were talking about going to the Pacific Coffee near HK Convention Center after dinner. Lucky we changed our mind in the end...