Century Park Hotel Amman

... out for bacteria&#8230;so it was one of the few items we have not touched on the trip. The cravings for a mouthful of a creamy, double chocolate ice-cream creation was getting very strong indeed.</li></ol> We enter Jordan and in an instant our times of denial suddenly end and are replaced by well informed officials, clear signage, warm water as a given and ice-cream in such plentiful supply that an uninterrupted cold-chain can be relied on&#8230 ...

... We stop at a place called The Pizza Company and order three different chicken pizzas (barbeque, garlic butter, and Mediterranean). They are all excellent and the young cook who prepared them comes out to see how we liked them. He is genuinely delighted with our response. This is just another example of how friendly and appreciative the Jordanians are.<br><br>Saturday is our last day of actually touring, as nothing is scheduled for the next day. Today ...

... planet can you desperately take the first two people who are interested in sharing your apartment and both of them (remember they don't even really know each other either, at least not for more than two weeks maybe) end up being cool beans and rad feminists? A: Planet Jordan apparently. The universe really does work in mysterious ways.<br><br>Thursday: Work. Later Jess and I will be heading to Club 51 for Zoe's birthday, holla!

... has learned alot from the many Deaf American visitors. He gave me a few tips and I told him we would come back tomorrow for another juice.<br> Almost everyone here speaks English. Chuck bought some antique coins from a street vender. We bought a few silver dollars. One was 1881. The other was 1900. The third one we bought didn't have a date on it, but it was quite old ...

... but not always, and have said the rosary but don't do so regularly. Anywho, if I was living with a family or hanging out with people of a different socio-economic background it would probably be very different. <br><br>But for example, a couple night ago Devan and I were at a friends house playing Pictionary (it was quite heated and I contest our loss). Around, idk....1ish or 1:30, in the morning mind you, the momma ...

... en dan bij de bus nog een keer je mooie stempel aan een leuke 17-jarige militaire laten zien. Hop weer de bus in. Vijfhonderd meter verder weer dr uit voor de King Hussein Border Crossing. Visum kopen, visum laten zien bij andere balie, tassen en lichaam door grote scanner ("kunt u die tas even openen?" *graai graai door vies ondergoed* collega: "laat nou maar gewoon" "ok, fijne dag!"), bus verwisselt volledig legaal naar Jordaanse kentekenplaten, en op naar Irbid en ...

... marry. No, no, no. Stay as lovers and then you&#8217;ll keep the spice.&#8221;<br> Nothing is ever what it seems in the Middle East. The pale-skinned, blue-eyed man you assume to be a western businessman is a Jordanian of Circassian origin, whose forefathers fled persecution in Tsarist Russia in the late 19th century to seek haven with their Muslim co-religionists in the Ottoman empire. Nearby, a Gulf Arab in flowing white robes barks orders about selling stock in a ...

... and look much more along our tastes. We will be trying those in the coming days. Once we made it back, we had missed the hot water period (hot showers are available from 7 - 9 in the morning and evening only), so we will not shower until tomorrow morning. So we watched "Showtime" with Robert Deniro and Eddy Murphy. It wasn't too bad. Cory has been asleep for a while, about halfway through the movie, then I came down here to do email and ...

... even bothered to look at the surroundings. It just made no sense. Well I guess it made a bit of sense, they were close friends seeing each other for the first time in 8 months, but you'd think that if the one girl liked Wadi Rum enough to come back she'd care about looking at the surroundings and sharing them with her friend. In addition, her only really conversations with us in English were to tell us she thought our jeep driver was too tame and that we weren't ...