Thursday was Matt's and my last day in Amman, and the evening was spent with family and friends.
We ate a special dinner that Sittii prepared for us, مقلوبة (maqluuba), or "upside-down" dish, a special casserole of chicken, eggplant, cauliflower, rice, and spices, that is cooked with the chicken at the bottom, so that it is served upside-down (with the chicken on top):
Then we took some pictures with the family, before scrambling off to Jabal Hussein. I needed to buy an extra suitcase, and Matt was on a mission to find a bottle of mango juice. We managed to find both, as well as some additional fireworks (small roman candles) and one last bottle of tamar hindi.
The fireworks were pretty cool. Some of them made the car alarms go off in the neighborhood. The last one, called "Super Blitz", or "Magic Blitz", was shaped like a large ground bloom flower. It started by acting like one, until it suddenly zoomed 20 feet into the air and exploded into an aerial display. Quite the finale.
We ate a special dinner that Sittii prepared for us, مقلوبة (maqluuba), or "upside-down" dish, a special casserole of chicken, eggplant, cauliflower, rice, and spices, that is cooked with the chicken at the bottom, so that it is served upside-down (with the chicken on top):
Then we took some pictures with the family, before scrambling off to Jabal Hussein. I needed to buy an extra suitcase, and Matt was on a mission to find a bottle of mango juice. We managed to find both, as well as some additional fireworks (small roman candles) and one last bottle of tamar hindi.
The fireworks were pretty cool. Some of them made the car alarms go off in the neighborhood. The last one, called "Super Blitz", or "Magic Blitz", was shaped like a large ground bloom flower. It started by acting like one, until it suddenly zoomed 20 feet into the air and exploded into an aerial display. Quite the finale.
Matt in action
Then it was time for packing. At around 12:30, my language exchange partner Aziz and his brother Maen dropped by to present me with a kuffiyeh and say farewell.
Aziz and I
Maen and I
After they left, there wasn't too much time left for packing before Matt's airport taxi showed up at 3 am, the Ramadan drummer began waking people for SuHur at 3:30 am, and my taxi arrived around 6:30 am.
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