There's no better way to start this post off than with a comical photo of Monica sleeping. Before leaving for this adventure, Monica and I both read Rock Steve's travel guide to Europe. In it he suggested we take ambien or some sort of sleeping aid so that we didn't experience jet lag upon arrival and miss a whole day of our travels, so we thought it best to heed his advice, however, he left out the side effects of ambien in his advice. Just as the flight attendants served us our packaged meal, garlic chicken, veggies and potatoes, we figured we'd take the ambien, figuring it would take at least 30 minutes to kick in. About 15 minutes through the meal I looked over at Monica and she just looked lost. I couldn't help but chuckle when she said "can you hear those voices?" For about 10 more minutes she panicked saying she was hearing things and then before my eyes it appeared as if the plane was growing three times its size. That's when I started "hearing" the voices too; I could have swore everyone around me was singing. I'd always heard that if you tried to stay awake when you took Ambien, that you risked some sort of "tripping effect" but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would kick in that quickly. Moral of the story, we both ended up forgoing the remainder of our meals to go to sleep as quickly as possible so we could escape the voices. No more ambien for us.
On the plus side, we both had the deepest sleep and experienced little to no jet lag when we arrived in Athens and were more than thrilled when we finally arrived after our 10 hour flight! 
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