Time travelers

We have been so looking forward to getting back to the mountain time zone. The whole while we’re in the central time zone, we never quite shake mountain time. Our home channels on satellite TV are the Denver stations. Programs that air at 9 and 10 mountain show up at 10 and 11 central time. We’ve been watching TV in the evening; going to bed on mountain time, and getting up and going to work on central time. We’ve been missing an hour every night.

We have been so looking forward to getting back to the mountain time zone and cashing in that extra hour of sleep. Just before we crossed from Texas to New Mexico, we crossed from central daylight time to mountain daylight time. We gained an hour. Three hours of driving in New Mexico and we crossed into Arizona. Know what happened when we crossed into Arizona? We went from mountain daylight time to mountain standard time. Arizona doesn’t recognize daylight savings time. We gained another hour! So after five months of being out of synch with the time zone of our kids and our television, we were in synch for exactly three hours. We didn’t even get to go to bed and wake up once on mountain daylight time. Now we have no idea when to go to bed and when to wake up.