Over and Back

As some of the loyal readers may have noticed, there was no blog activity last week. I was able to fly back to Marietta on Wednesday night with a 2240 departure out of Dubai. The 15 hour flight arrived into Atlanta on Thursday morning at 0640, just in time for traffic hour!

It was an extremely busy four days beginning with a trip to Pensacola, Florida, for the annual Homeowners Meeting and election. I was able to see lots of friends at the meeting and two nights of events on the property.

We left Sunday morning to return to Atlanta and have dinner with G & S prior to his returning to North Carolina. It really was very nice of him to drive to Atlanta to have dinner since I hadn’t seen him for three months. Good catching up on his career and golf improvement.

Monday night we had dinner with R&E at Giovanni’s in Marietta. It was great to see them again and catch up on their new lake estate. In sparing no expense, R will have a state of the art ice maker in the lower level – can’t wait to try it out! We were able to also see blog readers M&M at the restaurant also. It was nice to finally meet him and see that he was recovering. I didn’t ask if he had replaced the motorcycle yet.

The real purpose of the trip back was to help A get over to Dubai with her recent rotator cuff surgery. The return trip Tuesday night went very well as we were able to sit up front together. Once again, I was able to pay the $100 over weight penalty for her suitcase. It really doesn’t take much to go over the limit of fifty pounds. The fourteen hour flight was uneventful as I slept through most of it.

A has now acclimated to Sharjah and the surrounding areas. Not too sure she enjoys the car rides to get where we’re going, but she does enjoy getting there. She is already branching out from the Souks for the back streets!

More on the flying next week.