Tomorrow we’re headed off on a little desert adventure. We rented a 4×4 vehicle for the weekend (so we temporarily have 2 rental cars) and we are going to camp in Bedouin-style tents out in the desert tomorrow night.
So that means more packing tonight after some shopping today. Rebuying things like beach towels, a cooler, sunscreen, and several other items that we already own, but that are currently enjoying their vacation in Egypt without us.
Since I won’t have internet access out there, there won’t be any new blog posts until after we get home sometime on Friday night.
A funny story from the shopping expedition today as told by Josh. I was at home with a very tired baby, attempting to get her to nap, which is not a funny story, so I’ll share his instead.
As the boys were all walking back to the car after shopping, they saw about 5 Indian/Pakistani dudes getting into the car next to our rental (their nationality is important only to point out that Josh couldn’t speak Arabic to them). Instead of returning their cart to the cart return which was located right behind their car, they left the cart right behind our car. Josh caught their eyes, and waved his finger at them “No, no, no,” but they ignored him and got in their car to leave anyway.
So as Josh went to put our things in the trunk, he pushed the cart over behind their car again, leaving them no choice but to get out of the car and return the cart to the proper place before they could drive away. To get their revenge, they gave Calvin the finger as they were driving away, which is pretty nervy considering that giving someone the finger here can get you arrested and thrown in jail for 2 days. Seriously. Just google it if you don’t believe me.
Unfortunately Calvin didn’t tell Josh about the finger until they had already left, or Josh may have been tempted to see how seriously the Omani police actually take an accusation of profanity after all the dire warnings we received during the embassy welcome brief.
So to sum up: profanity? bad. Packing? a pain. The desert? hopefully fun.