BelleVue Hotel Amman

... version.<br><br>Just 9 km. (5.5 mi.) from Madaba is our third stop, Mt.Nebo. It is on the edge of the East Bank plateau overlooking the Jordan River and is where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land. We can&#8217;t imagine what excitement and emotions Moses must have felt at this sight. At 800 m. (2,625 ft.) elevation, on a clear day from the lookout where Moses would have stood, you can see the Dead Sea, Jericho (27 km/17 mi. away), and the ...

Tuesday: Laundry party day went pretty well. I didn't get everything done because now there are three of us plus we were washing rugs and towels and sheets but I still made a major dent in the never ending chore we call laundry. Later that night I was invited over with Adib to his cousins' place. They just came from Kuwait for university and their apartments are pretty groovy. Eventually the apartments are meant for their ...

... but some things are starting to stick so that is good. Mumtaz ikter. On Monday Gupse had mentioned the Korean Film Festival which is happening all this week with free films shown every night at some cultural center downtown. Always a fan of free stuff I decided to join her and we saw a film called the Scandal Makers, a Korean comedy. It was fun. I really liked the movie a lot. There was this little kid in the film that we totally adorable...unlike the little kid ...

... to feel really ill and luckily we went left soon after. I won't go into detail because it just isn't necessary but yuck I felt awful. I had planned to do laundry and make phone calls and so on but I felt to yuck to do anything but venture back and forth from the bathroom. Eventually I had to decide, should I eat something for dinner or will it make me feel worse. I decided to try to eat and it was actually a good decision. I made pasta Rachel style, tomatoes ...

... Mall.. Jezus christus moeder maria wat erg!!! Meer volk dan bij Ajax-Feyenoord in een Ameriaans kitch mall ding. We aten snel wat in de heavily overpricete foodcourt en zochten toen de arcade.. Waar het om 10u 's avonds wemelde van de kinderen, babies, kleuters, tieners, pubers en nog meer klein grut. Na twee spelletjes (met groot publiek) vluchtten we naar de taxi. Die ons allemaal 5 JD wilden rekenen vanwege de "heavy traffic". Juist ja.. 200m ...

... to have an Arabic speaker with me at the Police Station quickly dissolved once we got there, lol. He had to haggle, scraggle, and maggle with these guys just to figure out who to talk to for what I needed. Jeez. Needless to say I was glad Adib was there because I think they would have just told me "no" and I wouldn't know the difference. After my passport finally got stamped with an extension like nine hours later, we headed to the French Cultural Center and I ...

... to at least 50 people, drank 2 very very expensive drinks and then a lot of whisky. It was very strange when my friend Ferdy came up to me in the pub - I thought it was just americans - 100 Amricans, 2 British - no on else.<br><br>So after going to bed at 3.30am - drunk. I managd to get up at 7am to go to the dead sea - that hurt a lot!<br><br>I got up, met my Japanese friend and a couple of French dudes. We left at 7.30am, got a bus for an hour then ...

... Jordanian flight, which only took about an hour, plus or minus. The flight was really nice and comfortable, and they did serve a small sandwhich, OJ, and water. Upon our arrival in Amman we had to exchange some USD for Jordanian Dinar, since there were no ATM's before customs. We needed the money to get our visas, which cost 10 JD. For reference, 1.4 USD = 1 JD. 1 USD = .7 JD approximately. So we then got our bags, went through customs and ...

... an Atlanta Braves baseball cap! American influence, or rather American merchandise, makes it everywhere. I asked her if she liked the Braves...she had not the foggiest idea what I was talking about. <br><br>One seller tried an interesting tactic. First he told Kristen "Buy something for your husband, you make him a happy man." Then after she'd walke dby he called out to me, "Buy something for your wife, she make you very happy in the night." Funny dude. I also don't ...

... for a second because I&#8217;m not that fond of heights but IT WAS AWESOME!! <br><br>It turns out that the bus that you take down to the Dead Sea stops running at about three o&#8217;clock (which would have been nice to know earlier). Again luck was on my side as I was leaving I noticed that the girls I had met earlier on the bus were outside of a health spa wondering how to get back. Since there were three of us, a cab wouldn&#8217;t have been such ...