We are heading out this afternoon for the beach. Our weekend is Friday and Saturday so we will get Sunday off (and will be back at work on Monday). This weekend isn't a Jordan holiday so it is possible that the other customers at the beach resort will all be Americans from the Embassy heading to the beach like us. We spent last Labor Day at the Dead Sea and that was definitely the case - we stayed at a hotel that had just opened and only a few rooms were rented and we knew a significant percentage of the other guests. In Aqaba, I don't think we will know quite as high a percentage but I suspect that we will see co-workers. Jordan is a small country.
Last night we went to a concert sponsored by the Dutch Embassy. It was guitarist Jan Akkerman and his band. In all of the emails that we received inviting us to go, it was mentioned that he was famous and before the concert started we were all trying to think of what band he was from - someone suggested maybe Yes had a Dutch musician - we tried using the web browser on our Blackberries to confirm but it wasn't working (maybe they didn't want cell phones going off during the concert). But then during the introduction it was explained that he was from Focus and later in some other band that we also hadn't heard of. The music ended up being really loud smooth jazz but we don't hear much live music in Jordan (we do hear a lot of recordings of Umm Kalthoum and Fairooz) so we were glad for the opportunity + the local easy listening station "Sunny 105.1 - your home for feel-good music" was giving away free mini-fans.
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Your post was amusing. You're obviously the wrong age. Akkerman was man of the moment back in the seventies when I was a teenager. Fickle fame.
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