G'day from Jordan

So after an eventful 15 hours we've made it to Jordan. Actually let me rephrase that, after a tedious 15 hours we've made it to Jordan. We arrived at the Ferry port and purchased our tickets at 10.30am as per the lovely tour guides instructions, and then the fun begins! Our Ferry was due to leave at 2pm that afternoon, we figure waiting three hours itsn't to hard since we've faced lengthy travel times already and we now fully understand Egpytian time (add about 1 - 1.5 hours to anything planned or told to you). So it's 1.30pm, Praise the Lord they are ushering us onto the bus that takes us from the departure area to the ferry, only to get all aboard and then the bus just stops working, for crying out loud, my butt is sore from sitting on these awful timber plank seats, we are motioned off the bus and we have no idea what the heck is going on because no one speaks english and Simon and I don't speak arabic. But alas I meet a knight in shinning armour by the name of Osama, who speak good english and is Jordanian, who informs us that the ferry is broken down and that they need to fix it before we go grrr!!! So anyway we end up chatting to Osama, about the general stuff that people talk about, family, Australia, life, dreams etc it proves to be a bonding moment, then at 6pm we are finally ushered back onto the buses, and driven to the ferry. But the ferry doesn't offically leave until 10.30pm, twelve hours after our arrival to the port. We are on the slow ferry, which means it'll take about 4 hours to get to Aqaba, Jordan. So Simon, Osama and I settle in for the trip, we share some dinner and then it's snooze time.  We finally arrive into Jordan at 3.30am about 10 hours later then we had expected, thank God I started talking to Osama because he rang our hotel and told them what was going on and that we would be late (just not this late), he even came along with us to the hotel in the taxi. We did manage to get into our hotel and grab a few zzz's, just in time for a fun filled day in Aqaba. Today Osama is going to take us out for dinner the Jordanian way YAY great food is install for us. But right now I'm planning to grab a deck chair, sit by the pool which is right across the road from the beautiful Red Sea and read a little of Persuasion by Jane Austen.

Until you hear from me again, Peace Out

Mandz