Border Changes

Well the border in town is now officially closed to foreigners. I had one last errand to run the day before so Tom and I went out to lunch with Layla at the mall one last time. Oddly I am not that upset or anything.... I rather like having my life simplified for me. Plus, I have stock piled the New Zealand beef which is the ONE thing from other side of town I really couldn't live without.
It is very tense and the police have been lurking about the borders - the old one that is now shut and the one we've been using where they are now turning away foreigners.

So what used to take 15 mins will now take at least an hour and require two visas.

On another note, we've had a load of arab guests lately. We usually don't get this many dropping it, but it has been fun and made me a little behind in the rest of life. I didn't have fruit to serve or even juice, my last big of Tang was a horrid looking congealed crust in the bottom of the jar. I think they knew we were back from Turkey and this month is when everyone else is on vacation. It is a fun time to be in town. It makes it all the harder to think about moving!! wow.

In other news, Tom is taking a 'vacation' with his buddies across town! They had been talking about taking a trip to Europe all summer. It was all InShallah until two days ago when Tom called to say he was coming over and they were at the travel agent. So typical. So Tom is going for 2 weeks! He'll pay for the flight and they'll cover the other expenses. What a crazy time and good time it will be for their friendships! There will be four guys all together. I've asked Tom if he thinks they'll be expecting to visit some prostitutes but he thinks not. Typically that is what they do on vacation (= I'm so glad my hubby isn't freaked out by stuff like that - he can some how take it in stride without making them feel dumb for it. I don't know. I don't think I'm saying this well (=

Anyway. I am headed to bed. I have lots of mommy guilt tonight...Layla just fussed and fussed for 20 mins tonight and I finally thought I'd try and see if she was wanting some milk and she drank 1.5 bottles!!! I felt AWFUL. Poor dear had just been HUNGRY! She dropped right off to sleep without a sound after that - much more like herself. ugh. I mean really. All I do is feed, change and play with her. It isn't that complicate! How can I miss that she didn't get enough to eat!?!