Eid Mubarak...everywhere :)

Eid Mubarak Everyone Everywhere...

Baba Jeeej...We missed you so much today! Everyone was asking about you and wondering how you're celebrating Eid back in CA...What they didn't know is that you're still fasting :( It's so frustrating I know...Hopefully one day, all Muslims around the world would celebrate Eid on the same day...!!

Happy Eid Jeeej and all our loved ones :)

Cozy...

It's a cool day today here in Amman... No more onesies for Mariyah I guess..!!

Pictures taken by Khalto Renno..Since they all believe I'm not a good photographer :p

For YOU while at work ;)

Between us...

Is a big ocean...

& Love & Friendship & Islam & Patience & Passion & Mariyah...

Happy 2nd Anniversary Abu Mariyah :D

Sun Tan...

To make sure he's the one who gives Mariyah her 1st swimming lesson, and saying goodbye to her at the same time, Jeej bought her the swimsuit and the swimmers diapers and took her swimming one day before we left...That was Monday 18.08.2008, we went downstairs on a cool day and swam with her...she loved being in water...but once she got out she felt cold and started crying so we had to take her back home right away to warm her up... When me and Mariyah joined the family here to Aqaba last week, I made sure I took her swimsuit and sunblock too...it was too hot and actually just perfect for her to enjoy swimming, sleeping & tanning afterwards... The weather is too hot here these days...and I thought of posting these pictures to cool it down a little bit :D

"Driving" in Amman...

What's up with driving in Amman these days?!?! Should I call it racing or fighting?! I don't understand!!
Is it getting worse and worse as my sister says? or is it me getting used to driving in the states?!

When I first arrived I almost swore I won't drive here...but then one of the cars had to sleep in the garage for few days so I became the driver here, during rush hours :(
It makes me so tensed and I worry a lot...I use signals all the time but nobody cares about it :s

I feel sooooooo sorry for pedistrians...crossing the roads for them is like committing suicide!! Is it because it's Ramadan or is it always like that?!

Something else is disturbing me...
My mom works at one of the relatively expensive private schools located on the airport road, the high way...
The last couple of times I went to pick her up during the rush hour, I saw a little cute kid walking against traffic on the high way by himself!! He's tooooo young...2nd or 3rd grade maybe!!

He looks so tired walking there under the burning sun...carrying his heavy bag on his back! I felt sorry for him and I wonder what kind of parents leave their child walk on the highway knowing that it's full of crazy truck drivers!! If they can afford registering their son in such a school can't they afford transportation back and forth?!?!

When I talked to mama about it she told me that last year a girl from the school was hit by a car driven by a member in the parliment house...and that she died righ away infront of her friends...and how miserable the whole situation was knowing that she always had the driver help her cross the highway except on that day...and how she had an assignment at school on the same day where she described her own death and stuff...the story broke my heart really...

Driving here is sooo scary...I wonder who's fault it is...and the problem is that where ever you see police men you find traffic jams and people driving stupidly!!