Well, this seems to really be happening

I am in Oman! We stayed last night in a hotel in Muscat, which was wonderful after the 30 odd hours of travel it took for me to get here. My first impressions of the country:

             It says "Muscat".

• It is really hot. And HUMID. I'm talking the camera lens fogged up when I tried to take a picture and my jeans stuck to my legs after about 30 seconds exposure.
• It is SO pretty here! The building are beautiful, especially when I saw them in the dark last night.
• The plugs are, indeed, different. Luckily I have an adapter and am, of course, brilliant so I figured it out. I even figured out how to put pictures on my computer! (Are you proud of me mom?)
• There are a surprising number of trees, in this part of Muscat at least. There is plenty of desert stuff too, but when I look out the window of my hotel room I mostly see green. That's nice, as  Portland has lots of trees and I like seeing them.
  
  

Is this not the prettiest city you've ever seen?

 

Here I am with one of our first views of the city. Yep, I do look exhausted. I have reason, I promise!

 

 

Landing in Muscat!

 

Alright, hopefully I'll do a more coherent post later. For now I'm a little too tired for my words to sound good! We'll see how I do meeting my host family this evening.

 

Maa'salaama!