i've been driving in my car

so i just came back from taif. or not just just, it was really last night when we stumbled into our house after being in the car for a million years. okay, okay it was more like a couple of hours than a million years, but at times it felt like a million years. the last time i was in taif, i was in diapers and not even crawling, which does not count as going since i obviously don't remember it at all but my parents beg to differ. anyways, since this summer i seem to be incapable of replying to messages and emails, here are the details of the trip:

>we went, like with last weekend's roadtrip, with an aunt and her family and an uncle who can be hilariously fun company.

>the weather was be-yoo-tiful. way beyond amazing. we stayed in a furnished apartment (more of a condo) in alhada which is like a taif suburb kinda and you really couldnt sit inside. the weather was too great. if we werent out of the apartment we were on the balcony. the weather in downtown taif was not as nice. windy and still better than jeddah, but not as great as alhada.

>we played kun-kan like the entire time we were sitting outside. it's an addiction. kun-kan is kinda like the arab version of gin rummy, but with two decks of cards, 14 cards for each person, and a more complicated set of rules.

>we had lunch (really good chicken lol) on the side of the street. literally. we pulled over to the side of a street going up the mountain and had lunch with cars driving past us occassionally. this is okay to do in saudi arabia. my mom hated it. she said eating there put "dust in your food, and terror in your soul." but the view was great.

>our neighbor kids at the apartment place were loud and obnoxious. they were the type of kidst hat stayed playing and screaming all night until around 8 in the morning when they went to sleep. of course, they were then replaced with the next shift of playing and screaming kids.

>the road up and down was amazing. it's the mountain road and so a lot of the times you were like right on the edge of the mountain looking down what seemed like an endless slope to a lego city down, down below.

>my finger got slammed in a door (doors here are heavier than in america because they are solid) and let me just say... ouch. i was on my way out for a walk with the others so it happened i was like omg that kills and continued outside to meet them. i started to black out and go really dizzy and nauseous and basically collapsed in the street. i went back upstairs to lay down for like five minutes before deciding to suck it up cuz i did not want to spend time indoors. there was this purple dent in my finger when it first got slammed, but then that faded out into a nicely sized bruised bump.

i think thats pretty much the trip. it was a lot better than it sounds though.

*Driving in My Car - Madness