Back in Ittigen

It's 1:30a.m. on Friday night, here in Ittigen. Xavier just fell asleep and Izzi and I are struggling to find sleep.

Isabella, Xavier and I arrived at our apartment last night about 7:30 p.m., almost exactly 24 hours after getting to the Minneapolis airport to begin our trip. We got stuck on the Chicago runway for 3 hours while the auto pilot control panel was replaced, thus missing our 3rd flight out of Manchester. We sat in the Manchester airport for 5 hours waiting for the next flight.

We all slept for about 2 hours on our long flight over the Atlantic, so I figured we were on our way to getting our sleep straight once back here. Xavier fell asleep on the train ride from Zurich to Bern and there was no waking him after that. Isabella turned in around 9p.m. and I around 10:30p.m. I never thought to set an alarm, thinking we'd all wake by 9a.m. or so. Little did I know that we wouldn't wake until12:30 in the afternoon. So, Xavier got about 18 hours of solid sleep.

A long explanation of why we're awake now.

We had a wonderful, very busy vacation in MN and Iowa. We got to see most of our loved ones, but not all...unfortunately. Once we're back into a routine here, I'll share some photos.