A Blog about my Feet...

After not seeing my feet for a few months it has been nice to see them again.  I really did not see my feet from January to March for as soon as humanly possible I would put on at least one layer of socks and shoes or slippers.  I was even sleeping in my socks and slippers most of the winter.  So my feet (and the rest of me) are really excited about the warm weather we are now having (dust storms and all!) and being free from layers of clothing.
Something new this Spring: for the first time ever I went for a pedicure and I am hooked. So much fun! My first experience I went for the red color (the nice lady said it looked good with my white skin :), true enough). This week I went for a dark purple.
Purple will always be one of my favorite colors!
Question: Why don't my toe nails grow, my finger nails I seem to have to cut weekly,
 but a pedicure lasts me for months...
So with summer coming to stay for awhile I look forward to more pedicures and fun colors, funny sandal tanlines (I was so excited this last week when I realized I was getting a V tanline from my flipflops and it wasn't just a dirt mark!) and bugbites (you can see I already have a few and am not complaining one bit about them - bring on the sunshine and the bugs that come along with it!

That's all I have to share about my feet today, it has been a relaxing day of catching up and baking.
I tried a couple new things today and think they turned out quite well.

I made a bean salad

And another recipe off of Pinterest - Strawberry Banana Bread
We had been having the best strawberries at our local dukkan, loving having
 strawberries in everything!

 

Celebrating Easter

He is Risen

He is Risen Indeed!
 

I was very excited to be able to host an Easter party with my roomate.  We planned lots of food, punch, dying of eggs and an egg hunt for 5pm.

Thankfully we were set to go by early afternoon because that's when our neighbors arrived!  We had a blast.  And we got to have the party twice because some of my roomates other friends came at the orginal time.  So this year I got to celebrate Easter for two weeks in a row and host two parties - love it!

 

 

 

Enjoying a boat ride on The Nile River!

Just a few really big, really old rocks laying around

Me and the pyramids - would have never imagined it would be so much fun to walk around in the desert just exploring for the day.

No camel rides for me, but I did get a lesson on hieroglyphics, pretty sure I am an expert now...so much easier than Arabic!

And after such a day of history and learning I relaxed with some Nutella Expresso - Wow Yumminess!

I loved so much about Cairo, one of which was this sight - donkeys and horses pulling carts in the middle of crazy modern day traffic.

 

I didn't really think about the advantage of living in Jordan and being so close to
so many historical and biblical sites.
A few weekends ago I got to go on a walking tour at the Jordan River!
It was beautiful and exciting to think about all that has happened here.
Apparently the Jordan is much smaller than it used to be, so the site where the experts believe that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist is not even in the river anymore, but the believed site is marked and being there helps me picture the scene a bit better.
It also made me think about the songs I have heard sung about crossing the Jordan and entering the promised land - how excited that we look forward not to the physical but the spiritual eternal promised land of heaven when we will cross over that river to join in with those who are worshipping before the throne of the King of Kings.

 

Hello from the Jordan River!
I took this picture while my feet were in the river, behind me you can see across the river into another country.