Nothing like a spinach strudel, a glassl of wine and good friends to make you feel welcome in a place. After a long journey, we have arrived! It is always a little bit of a challenge to fool your body into a new timezone (+8hrs from Colorado). This is one regard where I feel like an insulin pump is helpful. Instead of trying to decide how much to change your long-acting insulin by and when to take it, with a pump, you can change the time upon boarding the plane and they feed you dinner and you seamlessly transfer onto your nighttime insulin regime. Even if there are delays and a set of 5 month old screaming twins- your body gets the message that it is supposed to be night and I think I was even able to sleep a bit… Then the nice thing about coming this direction is, even if you don’t sleep- it is late afternoon by the time you get here, so you get to go to bed again soon anyway.
Not to waste any time (or good weather), we will hit the trail today and head to the Franz Senn Hütte. Supposedly great snow right now and countless tours to be had from there.
More soon, with pix!
April 10, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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