Long story short, while at the flea-market Jamie drops her wallet in the middle of hundreds (she says thousands) of people rummaging through second hand items. So we headed home after looking around for an hour and skipping the zoo. I get a call that night from a Philipino family who found the wallet and are really excited to talk with an American for some reason. The aunt got on the phone to say hi, the sister, a friend...
The next day I'm heading back to Dubai to meet this family and pick up Jamie's wallet which had all ID, Medical, license, and money...we hoped. HUGE ordeal if we had not gotten this stuff back. We live about an 1hour 1/2 outside of Dubai. The IPAD was tuned to Led Zepplin, cranked up and I headed back to Dubai.
Long story short, meeting the family was a joy and the the Aunt was an 80yr old woman who wanted to share how she found the wallet and her work as a maid for a Jordanian family in Dubai. She talked about character of honesty and that was what I should expect from a Catholic woman. I was blessed to meet them.
A couple days later Jamie says, let's go back to Dubai! There is another ginormous flea-market so we packed up and took the vast sand dune journey a few days later. Two trips in a row and I haven gotten lost so far. I'm getting the regions and highway numbers figured out now. I'm still like a kid when we drive by camels in the back of a truck.
We have talked about taking trips to Paris, Italy, HongKong but money is an issue since we ultimately want to save money and remove the chains of debt. In the end if we do not get to visit these places close by, we can at least say we have been to Dubai. It's beautiful at night, the creative skyscrapers are enormous, and there is more to do than we ever have time for. We can't complain because we have gotten to live in the Middle East and experience all of this, just in one little space. - Jeff
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