(Dec 25, 2009)


5:00 am: call to prayer. Beautiful, extravagant. Definitely not what I expected...but my expectations were pretty small. However, it was lovely.

We arrived in Oman around 9:30 last night. As we flew over Muscat, the lights looked similar to those of our cities and perhaps it was just my mind in excitement, but that seemed more appealing and beautiful. There we no large sky scrappers, just a sea of topaz and Sapphire diamonds.

Customs was not as bad as Monsma made it seem. Things went smoothly and yesterday didn't really seem to exist. At 6 am we arrived in London, 9 am left, flew 8 hours (which every min I slept) and then it was Abu Dabi and Muscat.