10-26 (Wed) Petra




Does anyone remember the movie, The Midnight Express? It was about Billy Hayes, an American kid, who was caught trying to smuggle hash out of Turkey. Anyway, the Four Seasons in Istanbul was that prison years ago. I found this fascinating.
We flew from Istanbul to Amman on Mon. The international airport in Istanbul is really nice but it took forever to get through passport control. The airport was like the Olympics - there were people from all over the world dressed in their native costumes. There was a tribe from Senegal, they were carrying their bags on their heads and had on bright blue outfits. Then there was the huge group of men running around the airport in their towels! We couldn’t believe our eyes. We thought maybe they had taken showers some place, maybe a Turkish Bath in the airport but we never saw it advertised. The last we saw them they were down near the gates. I wonder if they were getting on a plane in those towels.
When we landed in Amman I had to go to the bathroom. I accidentally went in the MENS room. The men were all laughing when I came out.
We got up at 4:30 Tues morning to take the bus to Petra where we are now. We have hired Abraham, a guy who drove Lynda and me from Petra to Amman five years ago, to drive us back to Amman on Sunday. He invited us to his house this afternoon to meet his wife and four of his seven children. We had tea with them. Thurs night we will have dinner with them - we tried every way we could think of to get out of it but to no avail.
Last night Barbara decided she didn’t like our shower so at 10:00 (lights out time) we were moving to a new room!


Dinki,
Are you going to be home on Nov 6th. If so could you pick me up at the airport at 11:00 a.m?