After smoking arghileh all week, we planned to play soccer with some Jordanians that Joey, and John met before. It was really fun! It was the first time we got some exercise all week, so we were struggling a bit, but we still played about an hour of soccer in some 95 degree weather. It wasn't too terrible, but we ended up losing, Team USA 4 - Team Jordan 5 on a debatable corner call ;). The fact was, we got some good friends from this interaction. We talked with them for a bit afterwards and turns out they're some fun guys to hang out with.
Bakir and Ahmed with Joey and Zain
We go through our similar routine by hitting up AB's with the Brew Crew (Mark, Joey, John and me).
The Texas Bros
We ended up meeting a guy called Lanyon (think Grand Canyon with an L instead of a C), who's from California and interning with the King (SWEET RIGHT?!). He's helping out with some foreign energy investment in Jordan which immediately piqued Mark's and my interest (oorah petroleum industry!). Well turns out Lanyon's a really chill bro.
We then meet up with Zane and head to one of the numbered circles to hang out with the ladies.
A bunch of the guys leave in search of a beer, Joey, me and a few of the girls stay to hang around a bit more. Good choice for us. We got some coffee and grabbed a cab to meet these guys at the Marriott (#1 indication good idea we stayed). We got to the Marriott and got through the front door through a metal detector (#2). Tried to find the bar that they were in and spoke to the very well spoken concierge who politely pointed us in the right direction in perfect english (#3). While walking up the stairs, we noticed a wedding reception was taking place in the ballroom next door (#4).
Here's a picture of the guys hanging out in the bar with their 52 dinar pitcher-tain (two pitchers) of Amstel. 0.700 dinars to the dollar. You do the math.
From L->R: Lanyon, John, Mark, Zain
Got back to the apartment ready for a nice sleep.
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