Hello and Ramadan Kareem from Abu Dhabi. It was a long journey, but here I am, and I now KNOW that this was meant to be! My trip over was long, but Qatar Airlines is so wonderful. Every need you have is met with a smile. I sat with two young ladies (13ish) from Afghanistan. They mostly ignored me and chatted in their own little world, but that was ok with me. I only got about 2 hours of sleep on the flight, but I think I watched 2 movies and a few TV shows.
Landing in Abu Dhabi made it all real. I walked off the plane into the wall of humidity and it was 95 degrees at 12 a.m.. By the time I got to my hotel it was nearly 2. We had to get our visas, have a retinal scan done, go through an abbreviated version of customs and get our luggage. From then on we were treated like royalty! They loaded us (125 + teachers) on to busses, put our luggage on trucks and whisked us away to a wonderland known as The Fairmont Hotel. When our busses pulled up there were 75-100 hotel employees out front lined up to greet us. They checked us each in to our rooms and when we got to the room our luggage arrived within 30 minutes.
Now, I’m trying to brag, but the rooms here are AMAZING! My view is the Arabian gulf (we call it the Persian Gulf) and the Grand Mosque. At night it was a spectacular view, and in the day just as beautiful! I still can’t believe that they are treating us so well! I’ll post pictures of the room later once I figure out my camera. In my next post I’ll tell you all about my first day in Abu Dhabi.
Don't forget to take pictures of the view, especially the Grand Mosque! Glad you made it well and it looks like the Macbook is treating you well.
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