That's right! It was a 9 hour flight from Houston to Amsterdam. There we had a 5 hour layover. I spent a lot of that time walking around with new friends Nora, raised in Egypt and now living in Virginia, and Nicolle, Utah native. The Amsterdam airport is one of the largest, so we wandered through some shops, did some people watching, and even got to stroll in Holland's crisp spring weather. After walking around for a few hours, I slept on the floor by our gate for the last hour or so! The picture here was taken from the flight to Dammam, S.A. We were happy to be on the flight and on our way. (It was also nice that we each had our own personal tv and remote to choose movies, tv shows and games! I played tetris, watched James Bond, and Scrubs :-)
We were greeted in Saudi Arabia by one of our hosts Saad (sp). He helped us breeze through customs. We didn't even carry our own luggage, as there were some Bengladeshi (perhaps Indonesian?) fellas who transported them for us. I've noticed alread that many "labor-oriented" jobs are done by foreigners. In fact, Saudi's population is over 20% foreign. Many come from other Islamic countries (India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, to name a few.) From the airport, it was a 30-40 minute drive to the highly secured Aramco compound, where we will be staying for the first few days of our trip.
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Hey Mr.Senrick. Its allison dahedl and bethany westphal. That is way cool that you got to pick your movies and tv shows on the plane. Yuck i couldn't stand sleeping on an airport floor.-Allison
Hey Senrick we miss you so much at school. IT is sooo cool that you get the time off to go to these types of places. WE MISS YOU
-Bethany
P.S we just found out how to blog you from school.
P.S.S Did you know that Mrs.Neitz got nominated for teacher of the year and she won. We got to be on fox 9 news!!! It was soooo cool!!!!
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