Hello again. I appear to be blogging for a second time. The above picture is the temple of hercules on Citadel hill (القلعة) in central Amman where we visited last weekend. It was a great time to say the least. This city is full of ancient history, especially from the Roman empire. The Romans were pros at choosing naturally strategic places to set up shop. In times of war this citadel would only be accessible from one side because of the steep inclines on the other sides. That, however, didn't dissuade modern Jordanians from building super narrow roads with dangerously tight switchbacks around the rest of the hill. But the greatest part of visiting ruins in Jordan is that you get to climb and prance all over them with impunity, err... as long as you paid your 2 bucks at the door, that is. For example, this:
Me after declaring myself mayor of this ancient city
Here is Lindsey bringing back history, one block at a time
After this, we went to a restaurant downtown. We're going to have to publish some pics of downtown. It looks like a disaster, and I love it. Anyway, I was bemused to see that the Al-Qahira (Arabic for Cairo) restaurant made it a point to inform their customers that they no longer have any type of relations with Denmark. This is in retaliation for a Danish newspaper's publishing of the Mohammed cartoons. Man! Amid a global credit crunch, energy and food crisis, I don't know how the Danish are going to fare this embargo! The food was great, though. Maybe from now on we'll demand all our meals be served Dane-free.
To see the whole batch of Citadel photos, they're on Flickr
Lastly, we found a radioshack and got ourselves a power converter. Now we'll be able to play Mario Kart on our Nintendo DS all summer long!
