Landed

I'm here!  I'm alone in the airport as I flew separately from the rest of the tour and have a few hours to wait for them. I just exchanged some money to buy a diet coke and honestly could not tell how much it cost. Nothing on the vending machine is in English. I went to a currency exchange kiosk and changed over a $50 and got 160 shekels plus some coins. I don't know what the subcurrency to the shekel is but I thought I'd try the coins first but after inserting them all, nothing happened so I inserted a 20 instead. I got a diet coke!  And some more coins whose worth I'll have to figure out.

I actually slept on the plane. Well...I slept in about 30 second increments but those added up to several hours worth. Even though it is 1 am back home and I should be exhausted, I actually feel somewhat ready for an entire new day (it is 10:30 am here). Of course, that could just be the diet coke talking. I only drank water on the plane as I didn't want to undo the melatonin I took to induce sleepiness. Secret: I actually took 2. And some Tylenol pm. I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous they were going to have to roll me off the plane or I'd be like the drugged up sister on her wedding day on Sixteen Candles but I couldn't fall asleep for hours and I'm a very needy and particular sleeper. Even though my sleep was fitful due to the loud conversation to my right and needing to constantly shift to see if I could relieve the numbness on my tailbone, I woke up an hour and a half before landing and felt great!  Yay for drugs and natural sleep aides!  

Just trying this blogging through email to see if it works. I promise, I won't post about every diet coke and pill I take:-)