Jordan

I've been away for the past week in Amman, Jordan. For work. Which meant that I stayed in a lovely hotel and for four and a half consecutive days, I did not stop outside the hotel. Not even a step. Because hearing preparation took place in the hotel, then the hearing itself was in the hotel, and the couriers came to the hotel to pick up all of our materials to send back to New York.

At least The Four Seasons Hotel was very nice. So not too bad a place to be trapped indoors for consecutive days.

On the last day, though, I headed for Petra. Oh, but wait. I got along well with one of the hotel staff (who played a key role in setting up everything, and dealt well with my minor freak-out that the K80 office jet printer needed a new cartridge, the break-out room printer did not connect to our laptops and the photocopier outside the hearing room was not working extremely well), so he invited me and KD out to drinks. Which turned out to be a long night of dancing at Flow. And by long night I mean 4am.

The next morning, I got up at 730am, groggily gathered my things, checked out of the hotel, took a 3 hour ride to Petra where I proceeded to walk about 11 kilometers (at least 1/3 of which was climbing up up up and 1/3 of which was walking in sand, yes sand, the thing that is hard to walk on at the beach). But I saw glorious things. Petra truly is gorgeous. Another 3 hour ride back, I was in the hotel, gathering my belongings.

On the plane ride I discovered a potentially new addiction -- Dexter. I can't wait.