My baby kicked jet lag in the face

In the weeks before our trip to Greece, I heard multiple horror stories about how babies react to large time changes. I was prepared for the worst. A baby up for the day at 4am or not sleeping for the night until 1am or both. But Zoe was a champ. Well, first she only took four 45 minute naps on a 10 hour overnight flight and screamed every time we sat down. But then. Then she was a champ.

Here she is 6 hours after we landed. I don't understand how she was A: functioning and B: happy.

We were at a bouzouki place and it was all sorts of awesome. The music was phenomenal and the food was incredible.

The bass player was just as concerned with smoking as he was about the music.

We liked his technique of holding the cigarette.

One thing that made the 7 hour time difference a little more manageable was how late meals are in Greece. We were eating lunch at 4pm on this day. Dinner was often around 10pm. Since Zoe normally has dinner around 6pm, it was kind of like a 3 hour difference instead of 7.

My main goal was to let her sleep whenever she had the opportunity to.

A nap on daddy in the ergo

So even though she normally takes 2 naps at home, some days in Greece she took 4. Overall she was getting about 2/3 of the total sleep that she normally does. Considering that, she did a pretty fantastic job. 

I wasn't so complimentary when she cried from midnight until 5am one night, but that had more to do with the food upsetting her than the time change.