Jet lag kicked our butt

 6 am airport shuttle pick up then a quick 2 1/2 hour flight to London from Keflavík, Iceland. We went to bed at 11:20 and set an alarm for 5:40 am with our bags packed and clothes ready to throw on. It’s cute how naive we were. Essentially we woke up at 1:45 wide awake from our brief nap. By 3 we had admitted defeat and just planned to stay awake hoping maybe we could get at least a little nap in on the plane. No luck. Our flight landed about a half an hour late and we made our way to the train to go meet Kristi at her work. Unfortunately, two separate trains we were taking terminated before our stop unexpectedly, and we were forced to get off and navigate on our own. And I don’t think that was either of our strong suits. After what should’ve been an hour and turned into over hours later we finally made it to Kristi’s work. Thank God her work had showers because we were exhausted and sweaty from the trek. We finished getting ready and stored our stuff and then went off to a traditional English pub for dinner and drinks. Afterwords, we walked around the city and made our way to The Shard, which is the tallest building in London. We went up to the top and had a drink and took in the view that made us all slightly uneasy. By then we were spent and took the hour train ride back to Kristi‘s house. We settled in, popped some melatonin and went to bed by 10 hoping to sleep through the night.