We made it to Cologne! It required about 24 hours worth of traveling, but we finally arrived on Thursday evening. We are so thankful that everything went off without any hiccups. We made all of our connections including the big flight from Detroit to Amsterdam. Now besides a bit of jet lag, we're settling well.
The only real "mistake" we made in the whole operation was the failure of our grand plan to avoid jet lag and get immediately in sync with European time. The plan was that we would stay up the entire night before we left with the idea that we would be so tired when we got on our flight that we would fall right asleep. Then, the trans-Atlantic flight would arrive in the morning local time, and we would awake nice and refreshed.
Well, we did stay up all night on Tuesday, and we were very tired when we boarded our plane for Amsterdam. But, we didn't come close to going asleep on the flight over. So, not only did we not sleep on Tuesday night but we also lost all of Wednesday night. With the failure of our jet lag plan, we're now trying to get our rhythms matched up!
