Today is the first day of our school Half Term, and so the alarm didn't go off at 6.30am as normal. However, as my body hates me, I was wide awake by 7.15 and sat at the computer catching up with emails and writing this by 7.30am. Of course my friend Andrew is still fast asleep though I have been up for nearly two hours now!!
Anyhow, great excitement was evident at the end of school yesterday, not only because of the break and Eid being sometime this weekend (Eid is the end of Ramzan, the month in which Muslims fast, and also marked by family celebrations and gifts for the children), but also because I have finally annonce the location of the school holiday for 2008. If you haven't already guessed we are off to Egypt, to spend some time in Cairo, Luxor and Hurgahda(Red Sea). The great thing as far as I am concerned is that we leave on the 14th March which is Tom's 21st birthday, so all things being equal I will get to see him then, which will be fantastic.
Andrew and I are planning to do the tourist bit over the next few days. There will be some shopping today and a drive round the city. The on Sunday after Church, we have been invited up to the beach by Dan and Ruth from church. They have a beach hut up at Hawkesbay, and by beach hut, you should think, less Skegness and more Miami!! This is a three bedroom house on the beach. Not as glamourous as Miami, but very comfortable and a place to stay. I have been invited to join the group that owns it, the membership fee is Rs1000/- ( about 8 quid) and it costs Rs500/- per day to use it!!
Then on Wednesday we are off up to Lahore for two nights of luxury at the 5* Pearl Continental and some sight seeing. This will include the Wagha boarder crossing, where the Indian and Pakistani border police do there version of the Changing of the Guard every night when the crossing is closed. Both sets of guards Stamp the Retreat as an exact mirror image of each other, although they never rehearse together!
Tomorrow, In'Shallah Eid will begin and the whole city will be closed for the day. Sunday is also a holiday and then slowly over Monday and Tuesday everything will wake up again.
Andrew and I played Scrabble last night and I bet him both times!!! Not bad as he is an English Graduate, from Oxford!! When he reads this he will bleat out some excuse about his degree being totally irrelevant, which is something I have been saying fo rth elast three years!!
Eid Mubarak
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Do you remember scrabble at my house one new years eve when vera and jacqui played too, nearly fisticuffs at dawn as vera's rules and jacqui's rules seemed so far apart.
Enjoy your holiday, just thinking that we will miss you at New Year, no tubs of Hagen Daz like we had one year.
Have fun, good news about Egypt too.
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