Traveling

So its 12:15am here and I'm staying up all night before my flight tomorrow morning. Now that might seem like a stupid idea but I have a reason!

My flight leaves the airport at 7:10am which means that I'm supposed to be at the airport somewhere around 5am. Since it takes about an hour to get there that means that I have to leave my house by 4am. So I'd have to be up by 3:30am at the latest and I don't know about you but I have the worst time waking up in the morning so that makes me somewhat fearful of missing my flight but since I hate being late I figure I would have made it anyway out of sheer stubbornness.

The real problem comes not from when my flight takes off though but from when it arrives. With a 3 hour layover in New Jersey I arrive in London at 6:45am local time. Now personally the way I get over jet lag is by not sleeping on the plane and then staying up to normal bedtime hours locally and then crashing. Since I'm normally exhausted by then I sleep through the night and then I'm set! No more jet lag!

Because I have to get up so early to get to my first flight I'll be tired to start with and then since I'm traveling for about 15 or so hours I'll be exhausted when I arrive if I don't sleep on the plane. Once I get to London I'm planning on taking a train up to York to hang out with a cousin and a 2 hour train trip should never be mixed with an exhausted foreigner so I'm switching up my normal routine hence the staying awake all night!

My new plan is to be really tired when I get to the airport so that I will sleep better on the airplane. I'll get lots of rest on the plane so I should be good to go for a day of touristing when I get to England. Then after my awesome day of playing tourist I'll get to my uncles house and by exhausted again so that I'll sleep through the night! Thereby eliminating my jet lag! Anna, you're brilliant!

Well it's now about 12:30, I'm done packing and I'm not totally sure what to do with myself for the next 3 hours. I suppose I should clean my room like I told my mom I would but eh, I think I'll put it off til like 2am and play games instead...

By the way, here's my entire life in 2 suitcases and a backpack. The only things not packed right now are my camera, it's cord, and my computer.