This is the place

This is on top of Mt Nebo,  Moses looked into the Valley to the "Promised Land".

More of Petra

Our hotel at Petra is the middle of the rocks.
Sam got up early the second day and did a run through Petra.  Once again we were the first through the gate and to come through the Siq.(6am)  He ran up to the "High Place" to get a better view.  I wonder how many joggers they see , he didn't see anyone.  No one was up.  The day before we ran into 50 BYU students that were there.  It's funny how you can see them a mile away

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This is the sacrificial grounds at the high place.

Petra

Our favorite mode of transportation....
Dualing of the camera's
The Treasury at Petra
A few of the thousands of tombs

Night in Amman

We went to a great Arabic restaurant out in the hills of Amman.  The bread was fabulous there.  Cooked in a hot rock oven.  With some humus and some baba ghanounsh it was even better.

100% rise here in each piece of bread.  
Below the place was a local Bedouin campsite.  They go up the hills in the summer and down in the valleys in the winter.
It was a great evening with our friends from Amman.

Aariff , Basma , their oldest daughter Diana, son Damioan, and little ? I can't remember her name but I will as soon i ask Sam.  They moved to the US on the 18th of this month.  See you there.

Vacation School 101 for Mr. Sam

I caught him first thing on his phone texting the office....... Oh its going to be a long week.
Little did I know we were going to be seeing the job site in Amman, Jordan  This was ok once. Those are our big pipes going in.  

The Abedelee Project. I'm sure i didn't spell it right but I spelled it how it sounds to me.  If any one has the correct spelling let me know and I can edit it.

I'm Back..............for now

So I'm back after about a 6 month detour in the US.  My work in the states is now complete so it's time for the next phase in my life.  Now your wondering what in the world the next phase might be well let me tell you.  Not what I would have chosen right now.  Not what I planned on.  I fully expected to be here in my Arab world for another 6-7 years.  When we came we came with no contract and told them we will leave when we are tired of this life.  hahahahahha my life here are you kidding tire of it!!!! On the day my mother passed away April 4, 2009 not only was i mourning the loss of my mother but I was told that we would be leaving the UAE this year.   Not what I needed to hear that day but I put it on the back burner for a few weeks since I had more pressing things to take care of at the time.   So now that I am back I have to think about this and plan for the change.  I am trying hard to get my head around this thought of me living in the US again.  Not that I don't like living there I do but not where I have to GO.  Having been born and raised in Montana and lived in Utah and Idaho the cold weather has been something I just haven't appreciated.  The warm weather that I so enjoy here in Abu Dhabi is something I have never tired of.  I'm done being cold, never want to have to wear close toed shoes again or wear a heavy winter coat.  No desire.  I keep thinking maybe I was born on the wrong island or something.  No shoes and the least amount of clothing needed to be legal is what I had in mind for my senior years now that I have hit the decade that will make me a senior citizen.  I'm don't mean to sound un greatful or unappreciative of the opportunities that this new promotion Sam will have.  But really come on.  Why would I want to go into debt again and have to buy another house and another car.  All that is really over rated.  Not very  interested.  I'll never own the house, I'll be dead before that happens now that I'm in the golden decade.  So your wondering where in the world am I going to live .  IOWA.  Now you understand.  So if you want to come and experience my world the time is now before I have to return before the new year.  I figure I'll wait as long as I can and then that way it will be spring sooner in the frozen tundra. Why would I want to go before winter and experience the whole winter.  Right? So with all that  I'll go where I am to go and do what I am to do..... sounds a little hooky but I will find a new life and create something fun if it kills me.  

The last day of session #1

Zander's first day at the pool to watch the girls swim.  He wasn't to impressed.

Lifejacket's were fun in the deep water.
Some serious concentration going here.  Aubrey gives it a try first today.  If it works for her it will work for Sissy.

Scooping your hands, not tiger hands in swimming.  
Grandma don't catch us , I can do it my self.