Jet Lag.

[Susan J]

In Florida, it won't be a problem, as you are flying west. On return home [ and this is from 20 years of Jetlag experience!] - firstly, in the airport before you get on the plane, drink a litre of water, sip through the morning, but try to get it down. On the plane, drink more if you can, and avoid alcohol. Then grab as much sleep as you can on the plane. When you get home, go to sleep, but set your alarm - no longer than 90 mins - and ensure you are awake by 1.00pm. Have a hot shower, and stay on your feet keeping busy all day -force yourself to eat a light diet in UK time mode. Before bed, a glass of hot milk, and a Melatonin tablet, and you are then Jet Lag free - set your alarm for an early start even if not working as if you allow yourself to sleep in the next day - you are finished!!
MELATONIN is what you look for - walmart, publix, anywhere has it, and it isn't expensive. Dr Chris Steele on "this morning" recommends one tablet the first night, and then another the next night if needed. By then you should have kicked it. Children under 12 not advised.
Keep the water intake up. I never have problems following that, and in the past I have been dreadful.

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by worldpeace
we were wide awake and ready to go in the pool by 6am the first morning even though we went to bed at our "normal" time.however the year before our flight didnt leave uk till 3pm and we suffered no jet lag, strange but thats us for you!!
[msnwink]
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I'm always up and showered by 7 in the morning in FL.....and I know its not jetlag because I live in the same time zone.....you just feel like getting up and out into the sunshine.....I seem to have a much longer day in FL.....and its rare for me to feel tried........

[bluebirds]

I doubt we will ever sleep in. The excitement for the family being on holiday in the great place of Orlando will keep us going, even if i feel knackered on the first day.

[London Girl]

Hi Bluebirds.

I thought it was into Kissimee Old Town for a Burger and a Beer and watch the world go by, the car cruise looks good or maybe a swim. We are going to FLORIDA, I will need to take this in, very, very excited. Cases unpacked or not and straight to get our bearings I think. We will worry about Jet Lag when we get back.

We have plenty of Melatonin for you if you need it. [msncool]

London Girl and Family.

[Aiminghigh]

We usually stay up as late as poss on the first night and since they got out of "toddlerhood", my 3 don't wake up until around 6am, which we think is more than acceptable for the first day. Coming home, we do the usual, like drinking lots of water, but our well tried and tested method is to try to sleep as much as possible on the journey home and even if they've only had an hour or two, I do everything humanly possible to keep them(and us) awake the next day. We've tried the "short naps" in the past, but they never work for us. It's so hard to rouse the children after a couple of hours sleep.
We arrived back only yesterday-my children had slept for between 2 and 3 hours on the plane. We kept them awake during the day(despite their complaints!)They went to bed at 7.30 and slept until I woke them for school at 6.30 this morning-all were fine and are going to bed tonight around 8.30! Job done!

[bluebirds]

I agree London girl and family. Not going to bother with cases. Be with you for the beer and burger. Make mine a large cold one(beer i mean).[msncool][msncool]Actually thats the 2nd thing we are going to do,the first is to dive into the pool and stretch my aching travel legs. Thanks for offer of a melatonin.See you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[domster]

I always end up waking up really early on the first couple of days. Don't know if this is jetlag or just excitement!

DOM

[gromit]

Sometimes you wake up early on your first day in FLorida because of hunger!!! If you think about it with the time change, it's just like you had a really late night and then when you wake, early for Florida time, but actually feels like lunch time as it would be in the UK!!! So, try to set your watch to American time as soon as possible.

[Thorogoods]

Going to Florida is no problem, but agree coming home is the drag. We always set our watches on local time where we are flying to, and try to sleep on the plane (which never works) and then forcing ourselves to stay awake until normal bedtime. Takes a few days....but then we booked our next flights and it's not so bad.[clap]