My neck/back is getting better. It still feels not quite right, but I’ll take that over stabbing pains and the inability to take a deep breath.
Our friends from Oman are in town. Our families mesh perfectly together because the kids run off and play (Mer, Caleb and Camille built a fort and illuminated it with Christmas lights while the older boys played Madden 20XX all night) and we spend the night laughing and sharing stories. Life in the Middle East is always more fun when they are around. And funnier too, since ridiculous things always happen when we’re together.
Like last night we stopped by Marble Slab (think Coldstone) for ice cream on the way home from the airport. Caleb ordered a ‘value’ scoop, but the guy said he couldn’t get that because they didn’t have any value size cups. Josh asked, “Can’t you just put a value size scoop in a regular cup?” Nope, apparently they aren’t allowed to do that because the manager counts the cups. So instead of $3 scoops of ice cream, everyone was upsold to $5+ scoops of ice cream. And then it took 20 minutes to pay because we had 2 coupons and 9 ice creams and when you buy 5 you get one free but the coupons have to be on separate tickets and at the end we all had ice cream, but no clue as to whether we paid too much, too little or just right. But we laughed about it. A lot.