And an update from this morning: happily, I was able to get to sleep pretty easily after picking up Mike and Kristie at the airport, and slept well until 7 this morning. So, my usual traveling strategy
for defeating jetlag wins again. It's pretty simple, really. Just don't sleep nearly enough, nor eat enough, while you're flying. By the time you land, you've so thoroughly confused your body that it has no idea if it's tired, or hungry, or whatever. It's a great place to be. You can kind of muddle along for hours and hours and hours. Whenever there's food in front of you, you realize you are hungry and eat it. Whenever you lay your head on a pillow, you're asleep within minutes. But you can keep in this state until bedtime, and then when you wake up you are reasonably close to adjusted to local time. Hooray!
The time difference here is a little weird. Having all the same shows on TV, only being 6 hours behind Eastern Daylight time, is rather strange. It's 8 AM and I'm watching Ahmadinejad talking at Columbia. Not much in the way of meat to the speech so far, but maybe he'll get to some interesting stuff a bit later on.
Saw a lot of talk on the morning talk shows here about some pretty raucous baboons in South Africa. I wonder, in particular, if the restaurant in the article serves wine from twist-open bottles, or if the baboons have figured out how to use a corkscrew?
Also, very strangely, people on the morning news crews here (in other words, the people who break in for the local weather and news updates) wear Hawaiian clothes like Hawaiian shirts and leis while they are talking. This is weird. I would be surprised if, while watching the Today Show in Dallas, the weather man was wearing chaps, spurs, and a Stetson (stereotypically Texan clothes), or the news woman had huge hair and giant fake boobs (stereotypically Dallas outfit). Okay, the second wouldn't actually surprise me much.
Today: an introduction to the island run by our resort, some more snorkeling, and who knows what else?
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