Our first day in Muscat went much better than our first day in Egypt. But since everyone (except me) woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning it made for a really L O N G day for our already overtired kids.
Our goal was to keep everyone awake until 8pm so around 4 we headed out to run a few errands. We went to Lu Lu’s hypermarket which is like Super Wal-Mart. The bottom floor is all groceries and the top floor has electronics, clothing, appliances, etc. I’ll have plenty more to say about Lu Lu’s another time, but for now, this is what our kids thought about this shopping trip.
Poor Caleb was so tired he was whimpering with every step. He’s holding a bag because he said he felt like he was going to throw up.
I know it seems mean, but if we stopped moving, they were going to fall asleep. Josh did end up carrying Caleb for a while and thankfully, we didn’t need to use the bag.
On the way home I had to keep poking Bob and Carter to keep them from falling asleep. It was 5:30 and we had to keep them going long enough to go to dinner at 6 at the Thai restaurant in our hotel. We had a yummy dinner of spicy prawns in coconut milk, fried fish fillets in chili sauce, chicken in peanut sauce, and fish cakes. Food here is supposedly much more expensive than in Egypt and so far we’ve found that to be true.
After dinner the kids were begging to go to bed so we let them crawl in at 7 and they all were out within 5 minutes. They each slept a full 12 hours and are much happier today. Of course I woke up at 3 am and couldn’t go back to sleep so today I’m the one wanting to go to bed in the middle of the day.
I think this post is boring and not very informative at all, but I’m too tired to revamp it. Give me a few days to adjust to the new time zone and I’ll be back to my old self.