Wednesday, March 10, 2004

5.30am

Woke up early today for Subuh. As usual the water was cold! And as usual too I snuggled back under cover. Can't sleep, so browse the tv watching news. The weather improved a bit today, however there will be snow scattered here and there. The temperature was below 10C brrrrr....

By 7am everybody was up. Abg Annis is going to work and will come back around 10am. We've decided to leave Hull around 10am so that we can reach Heathrow around before 3pm and will have plenty of time to check in.

After morning shower, I helped Minna making breakfast took my laundry and packed my bag. Jules was still sleeping, so woke her up.

By 9.30am Abg Annis came back from work and we are getting ready to leave Hull. But one more place to go before we leave.... TOILET!

Put everything in the car and picture time. Took picture at the living area that is still under construction and take picture outside the house then off we go to London Heathrow yea!

It was snowing on the highway.. not really bad. Just enough to dirty the windscreen hehehehe.. but still excited with the winter in UK. I guess being born during winter time (northern hemisphere) made me love cold weather, especially when one was born, raised and work in tropical country... :-)

Anyway, we reached Heathrow around 2pm and immediately went to the counter to check in. Everything went smoothly so after checking our bags we decided to lepak and this time Abg Annis said he will belanja coffee at Starbucks.

"Ni, remember the big mug we had in Manchester? How about one now?"

I just grinned. "Yeah! Why not!"

We did not get a mug though but we had tall paper cup of cafe latte and hot chocolate. It was heaven! Oh yeah! I finally paid Minna for the leather jacket. Now the jacket was mine!!

An hour before the boarding time, we said our final goodbye. It was good to see them again and I don't know when will be our next reunion. Love them like my own family and hope that they will always be happy together.

Walked inside the duty free zone and we decided to go separate ways. Will meet at the boarding room later. So I browse the perfume area and book store while Jules were looking for some sports stuff.

Nearing to the boarding time, I went to room 22 and saw Jules was already there. There were a lot of Brits taking the Royal Jordanian Air. I guess they are on their way to Thailand. Royal Jordanian Air offered cheap flight ticket to Thailand via Amman.

It was already 5.30pm and we boarded our flight to Amman. It is going to be six hour flight from Heathrow to Amman. Again we got the three aisle seats for ourselves. Since we got nothing to do and the movie was not so appealing, we just sleep the whole journey.

We reached Amman around 11pm and after the immigration check, we met Mr Hassan who was holding a placard with my name waiting for us. He brought us to the Space Hotel and told us that our two day ziarah will start tomorrow.

Mr Hassan was a nice person who's wife was also a journalist. He was impressed when we told him that we are journalist too. So we talked about local politics and the women scenario in Amman.

That night we were so beat that we fall asleep almost instantly.

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