Maybe there is a teeny bit of sarcasm in that title…or maybe more than that.
But it´s true…jet lag kicked my butt today.
It´s to be expected when your days and nights get all mixed up…but this time it hit a lot harder than I was expecting.
We slept like rocks our first night here. And last night we went to sleep around 10 pm, planning to get up at 6:00 to catch our first bus at 7:45 to Algeciras, to catch another connecting one to Tarifa, to catch the ferry to Tangier.
It never happened.
I´m not sure exactly what happened…other than the phone rang just after midnight. I´d slept for just long enough for my body to feel like it had gotten enough rest, and that was it.
After (both of us) tossing and turning until 2 a.m. or so, we had a conversation that went something like this:
Mel: Honey, I´m fine if we wait til Saturday to go to Morocco.
Tobin: Huh?
Mel: I cannot go to Morocco tomorrow…I´ll be a wreck.
Tobin: Why are we having this conversation now?
Mel: Because it´s 2 a.m. and we´re both awake. Why not?
Tobin: Should we check into a different trip?
So we both got dressed, went down to the lobby to get on the computer and reserved our spot on a tour for tomorrow.
Yeah, that´s what we did in the middle of the night. 
Then we went back to our room, fell asleep around 3 a.m. and slept til 9 or so.
It took me two cups of coffee, a hot shower, and three ibuprofin before I was even able to function, but we tried to make the most of our day.
It was cooler, so we took some time and walked through the old part of town, had lunch, walked more, had coffee, walked more. I like exploring and seeing new things so it was a good way to spend the day.
I had expected to be in Morocco today, which was a bummer…and the gray clouds didn´t help. But tomorrow we´re going on an organized tour, and as much as neither of us like structure on vacation, with a trip like this, it´s almost better.
At least I hope so…at least all of the travel plans are made FOR us.
So tomorrow will be a long day, but we´re both looking forward to it and will, I´m sure, have a lot of pictures and stories to share.
And hopefully the jet lag will be gone by then, too.
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