awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww......at least you'll get to see your family next year.....

I wanna see pictures of the wedding JP cuz i know you'll be a beatiful bride.

Awww, thanks Amal, you are such a sweetheart!!! I will be sure to post some pics of the wedding!

just woke up....getting error message in brain to leave a message after the beep.........can't think of anything to say.......but am totally stoked to see pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I miss Jordan and Irbid is where we had our wedding party. I am praying I can cancel my trip in March, cos that would mean that he would be having his interview. I can dream and seeing that they are moving up the interviews it might just be a possiblity. If his interview is in June or later I am going in March. Might see you there Jackie.

hehe maybe we can go together! lol....yeah, at 1000 per ticket....i can't afford that right now... one of these days tho enshallah...

i was looking at tickets and seen total ticket price lowest one around 1300 with taxes on orbitz. I know one thing I will not go in the winter again because it's raining and cold.

How is the weather there in March? I have been to Jordan in June-----omg I melted. Once in August and once in Sept. It was ALWAYS hot in Jordan. So if March is milder, I will be in heaven.

We are so excited about this trip! We talk about it every day.

Jackie

I been there the beginning of May and the weather was nice. It did rain once, but otherwise awesome weather. I was also there in September and thought it was nice. Actually I flew to Jordan two years ago on this very same day September 11, 2004.

I was there in December and the weather was perfect! A nice balmy 73 was the average. It rained a little bit but that was perfect coz both Noor and I like rainy days!

amal

Jackie-
you are going this March? That should be wonderful! I would talk about it everyday too.
Amal-
73 & balmy in December? I was in Jordan in November once and some parts of me are still frozen. I was never so cold in my life and I've lived in Chicago forever. We are talking about going next month or in november and we might, but I am hoping we delay it til spring just to avoid that cold. I would love to be there in the spring...I might have to slip into one of Jac's suitcases
and I was just picking on you about the leftovers...I know its Jackie thats really holding out
Dawn

Jacque....
March in jordan is good, well in zarqa, it was great......65-75 everyday...I would imagine places like Amman and Irbid would be a little more cold, and def. chilly at night, but nothing like the winter....a sweatshirt would suffice...

P.S. Can i come?

Yea we can have a meetup at Ohare......and that would some RJ flight, huh? Thirteen hours of debkah. We are already starting to plan on what gifts to bring.

I promise in the morning to post the secret recipe that has my husband and Amal's husband happy and full.

Jackie

hehehe wonder what they think with all of us going to the same place....118 passengers going to Amman, Jordan please.... we could all go in on a hotel suite and let our husbands stay at their family homes so we ladies could have some girls nights! I don't think that would look at all suspicious......what do you think??

amal

I have been in Amman in late March and it was soooooo coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. I was miserable -- the temps were in the 30s and low 40s, plus very windy and that endless cold drizzling rain. Chilled me to the bone -- I just could NOT get warm. This was 2002, but I think not out of the normal weather pattern for Amman. I returned in late April that same year, and it was not much warmer. The weather in the highlands of the West Bank is much the same -- cold and rainy and windy (although flowers are starting to bloom.)

Now of course I am from Texas and I think anything below 70 is cold. Perhaps what I describe in Amman would be like a balmy spring day to those from Chicago



-MK

Ooooooooooooooooooh I agree 100 % September and October are wonderfullllllll months to visit !

I was in Amman and subsequently the West Bank in those months in 2003 (LOL I flew on Sept. 11th too figured it's the safest day of the year to fly now) -- it couldn't have been more perfect ! Warm sunny days (but not tooo warm) and just starting to get cool at nights where maybe you could use a light jacket or sweater -- but just lovely weather. The cold rains and winds of winter usually do not arrive this early.

All in all, this September-October period is my favorite season for Amman and the West Bank !



-MK



Wow 73 was the average ??? Are you talking about Amman or another area ? Because I was there in Amman in early December 2004 and then again in early January 2005 -- and it was much colder. It was not bad in the day time, but once the sun went down, it was bitterly cold and windy. Had to use my winter coat every day (this is like a huge ordeal if you're from South Texas like me )



-MK

I was in Irbid. I didn't say the nights were good...we like to froze to death after sunset but the day time was perfect for me. (I prefer it with a slight chill in the air tho) I DO NOT like to be hot.. The way I look at it ... is this... I can always put more clothes on..but I can only take so many clothes off before it starts scaring children maybe if we could all run around in our birthday suits and think nothing of it, I'd like warmer weather....????

Nov-March are the winter months
If you are going to be there during the winter months and it's raining. take a lot of sweaters and a waterproof jacket. Oh yeah and when it rains since irbid and amman are built on hills. You'll have little rivers of water running down the streets so when you go to catch a taxi your shoes might get soaked. Popeyes and Pizza Hut and Mcdonalds are great places to hang out if you miss the warmness of your house MK described it right the cold is bone chilling.

Thanks for the 'weather' advice! The first 3 trips were so hot his family followed me around with an electric fan. I can handle 'Chicago' hot' , but that 'Texas hot' is not for me. It will be a nice change to wear a sweater there.

I don't think we will do too much touristy stuff this time. I've seen Jerash, been north for dinner at UmQuas, had coffee and a hooka in Amman. I think this time we will just spend time with his family visiting. I know this will be a more enjoyable time for us both because we will not have to say 'goodbye' to each other. alhamdulillah

Oh,,not just visiting,there will be some serious shopping trips! I want gold. And I want to see the inside of that mall in Amman.

Jackie

Hehe, the first time I went to Cairo was in August, so my theory of Middle East = darn hot was cemented. The next time I went was in January, and luckly I had a sweater along that I had worn while going to Chicago for the flight. It was a wee bit nippy, especially at night.

I had that same issue... I went in November but had this image of Africa = smoking hot all year long! It was comfortable most of the time BUT at night and early in the morning it was COLD and they had no heat in our apartment!
I tease Yousuf that when he comes here he's going to freeze to death.

LOL my husband kept saying the West Bank was soooo hot in the summer. I kept trying to explain to him -- that's dry heat without any humidity -- a piece of cake compared to South Texas.

Now he knows what "subtropical" really means. Thank God for air conditioning !

Mine too. I kept telling him it's the same temp as in Irbid and he goes but it's different. He was trying to explain humidity I said you mean like water mixed with the air and he goes YES!

Mine just couldn't figure it out..how it could be 80 and so so so so much more hot and hard to breathe here...he said the same thing ...its like "swimming in air" and going outside "makes me sticky" I said, "yes, welcome to humidity"

Hey guys can someone PM me the link to the yahoo group ? It got deleted with all my other websited by accident.

Does anyone still go on there ? Even if noone does I want to go on there to delete my pics since noone goes on there.

Thanks

I have a cute 'humidity' story. One day I said it was sticky. I was leaving for work and it was already hot and he said 'Oh honey you stinky.' I said 'What did you say?' He said, just like you said, it is stinky. LOL,,I said I am sticky not STINKY!'

Jackie

That's cute

i thought you were gone for the day?

imshi!!

remember this?

Yah I remember saying nevermind and to scratch the idea that I wasn't gonna post much today

its' ok...i'm not in the best of moods either....keep on keepin on

I am going on a sabbatical from VJ but I'll be back for JordanianPrincess Countdown

Finally I am going back to 30 hours a week no more of this 40+ hours it was making me so tired and also i want to be devoting more time to being with my husband. I'd rather be making less money and being happy than overworked and tired, sure the extra money was nice but the last two weeks I worked 107 hours it made me exhausted.

I also bought an arabic for dummies book and an arabic computer language program. My koran in english is coming from Jordan this week so time to start educating myself.

Best Wishes for everyone!!!
Have a good ramadan and happy eid!!!

P.S another member of the Jordan Posse is on Leave also, girl beat me too it. Wish you the best!!!

Good Luck to the new members going through Amman if you have any questions feel free to email me.

everyone wave bye bye

Happy Ramadan Angel, please give Anmar my best

Hello all, I didn't want to make a separate thread abt how I'm leaving VJ, but like angel, I need a break from all this negative mess. I truly would love to keep in touch w/ many of you I've come to know, so if you want to reach me, PM me and I'll give you my yahoo id and email. I'll check in now and then for info if I can avoid the train wrecks and hopefully in the future I can help others like many have helped me. With Ramadan quickly approaching, I just really have to avoid the negative crud as much as possible. I wish you all a blessed Ramadan, and a quick journey if you're still waiting... I'm sure I'll be back later, but I can't do this anymore right now. I hope maybe things will calm down soon, maybe I'll even have a little countdown, who knows??? Thank you all for your support and help.
Maa salama,
Noura

bye bye...cya soon

yalla!

yallah yallah yallah

I just want to ask a question that has been in my mind forever, why is this thread pinned?

As I can remember, this thread was 'the place to be', then came along the daily threads. So if you have something to post, it's really a toss up where to put it.

Jackie

i'm the original pinster hehe
good luck in getting it unpinned. I made the thread and I can't even get it unpinned.

The only reason I ask is because its confusing where to go, maybe we should make this our recipe thread?

yallah yallah yallah

Yeah, when angelk and I first joined VJ, I tried to open a thread as this one but it fell apart after 20 or 30 pages... then Angel started this one and it was great..everybody was able to come to 1 thread to find out all information they needed........After the daily threads began, this thread kind of died out BUT it is still my first read every morning.

UPDATE on my husbands "belongings" lol....he finally was able to get a new mobile phone yesterday....played with it from the time he bought it until he went to sleep ...(all in unison..."awwwwwww")
Now maybe he will feel more like himself....enshallah

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww lol

We had dishnetwork install the Arabic Elite Package yesterday and Mohammed hasn't left the couch! Tell Noor mabrook on getting a new phone. What kind did he get?

Jackie

Did someone say shopping?

just a razor but still ....its a phone (i got a new one too hehehe)