How fit the traveling shoes?

[wayfaringwordhack]

 Saying hello from Roissy in Paris, in transit to Beirut.  It has, as usual, been an exciting start to the day: taxi 1h10min late; almost had to leave personal affairs that cost several hundred euros behind because the security check personnel feared they could be weapons.  ETA:  I forgot to mention that some "little clever pants," as the pilot called them were flying their drones around Roissy and we couldn't land for 30 minutes.  That put no wrenches in our works because we had a planned 5-hour delay before our next flight, but it wasn't fun for others needing to make a connection. :-/

But J's colleagues should meet us in Beirut and keep us from further hassles with customs, etc.  Another colleague has already got J a sim card with Internet and has some Lebanese cash waiting for us.  J's cousin by marriage is letting us sleep at her place and we visit a flat not far from hers* at noon tomorrow.

Here is to a slightly more-connected me.  Not making promises, but I really want to journal what we do more faithfully for my memories, our friends back in France, and to be more in contact with all of you in this phase of our life.

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* The flat is also a five-minute walk from some friends we made in Cairo, who now live in Lebanon, and who have 4 kiddos, two very close in age to Sprout and Farmer Boy.  We are looking forward to meeting up with them again and doing life with friends within walking distance. What a change that will be from the one-hour drive (minimum) we had here in France.

Comments

[rimturse]

Apart from the morning stress, it sounds as if you're already off to great start once you land in Lebanon! :)

[wayfaringwordhack]

Fingers crossed that the stress is over!

[asakiyume]

All best wishes for the journey! I think it's lovely that there will be people nearby with kids (some of) your kids' ages--that should help *a lot*!

[wayfaringwordhack]

I am so happy to have friends there. It is especially good because a) we really enjoy spending time with this family, b) they know Egypt, too, and have been able to give us insight in comparison to what we experienced before. That's helped us make some decisions about the move instead of being in the dark.