CDH and I are still sick – blah. the resident tour Doctor says it seems to be a viral thing and should be cleared up in the next couple of days.

We crossed the border into Jordan today – what a change! CDH was so relieved as Syria was – although interesting – a bit of a smelly, dirty place, and it made us so sick. We are in Amman, which is a huge city of 3 million people (1/2 the Jordanian population), but it’s much cleaner and they even have western food here. We’re trying to eat bland food that our stomachs can handle till we get better.

Today we went to look at the citidel and then to take a taxi to the local underground metal store. We met the coolest taxi driver, he took us there, telling us all sorts of stories on the way. Turns out, underground metal store closed two years ago. The guy should probably update his website. So our driver took us to see an amazing black and white mosque and told us more stories and brought us coffee (it tastes like dirt). Was such a great afternoon!

We’re resting up in hotel before going out to dinner. Well, I will go out to dinner, and CDH will stay here and have McDonalds delivered :) (they do delivery here. McDeath’s also do a “Chicken Big Mac” apparently.

Tomorrow we go swimming in the dead sea! then we go to Petra for a day and a half, where I can do some Indianna Jones poses in my wicked cowboy hat, then into the desert to stay the night in a bedouin village, on to Aqaba on the red sea where CDH will be doing lots of diving, and then we climb Mt Sinai and move on into Egypt! Yaaay!

Photos soon, I promise!
Salaam Alekum!
Steff