Wow as soon as I say I’ve run out of things to say, I realize I have many more things to say. I was in Fuddrucker’s just an hour ago. You might remember that I befriended the manager at the Fuddrucker’s in Juffair, where I used to live. He liked watching Prison Break, so I lent him the first two seasons. I hadn’t seen him for a couple of months. So I went to the Fuddrucker’s in Adaliya near my new home. He was very excited to see me. He told me he went to Nepal for his month vacation and recently just got back. He invited me next year to come visit him in Nepal when he goes on his next vacation. I have invitations like that to about 15 different countries. This is a pretty amazing place for that. Then something a little unexpected happened. I was watching this overview/documentary on LOST they were talking about the music and they played a 20 second music clip. The music is the same that I used in my engagement video so as soon as I heard the tune, the association kicked in, I started crying immediately right there in Fuddruckers. I do love that girl Jennifer, and each and everyday Im convinced even more that she is the perfect girl for me. Im so happy with her in my life. Even if other things aren’t going as well at the moment, I have that relationship to pull me through. God’s timing was/is perfect. Im so thankful for Him bringing her in my life exactly when and how He did it. Things aren’t going to be perfect for us in this relationship, but we are both committed to the “til death do us part thing.” As long as two people are firmly committed, every relationship is workable.
Let me get to something that happened yesterday. I have a good friend, Adam that is the PR manager of a great waterpark here called the Lost Paradise of Dilmun. It was opening day, so invited all the media to the event. I gave an open invitation to the office but only four people wanted to come. The day started out very dreary. There was a bad sandstorm and the weather was only about 70 degrees. Hardly the best day for the season opener for a waterpark. But we had free tickets and the group still wanted to go. Now I’m going to tell this story in a little detail to give you some perspective. This was the first time in a waterpark for these four (two Filipinas, and two Indian men). Now its easy to see the reason why. A one day’s admission of around $40 is just around 5-10% of their monthly salary. So they just wouldn’t pay to go to a park like that. So they were excited about the possibility. When I picked up the Indians, neither of them had swimming trunks. One them had one but it had holes in it and he was embarrassed to wear it. So we stopped by a store along the way and I bought them both a pair. One of them after realizing that I was paying for it joked, if he knew I was buying he would have bought a better pair. I wish I would have known, because I absolutely would have bought him another pair. Now the English for these two is extremely limited but we still manage to communicate.
We were there a couple of hours or so, and none of them had been on any of the slides. I think they were scared. So finally I decided to take matters into my own hands and strongly encourage them. Remember they had never been on any water rides before and probably haven’t been to that many theme parks either. I love theme parks and water parks. So first I coaxed Julie, a Filipina grandmother onto the double tube to go down a ride called boomerang. She was scared but she really had a blasted screaming the whole way. It was a pretty special experience, then Bene went. She too had fun. Finally we got the Indian guys to go. We went down a slide with a huge raft. Nishad, our photographer screamed like a girl the whole way down. It was quite funny. Priyesh was getting more and more courageous each time out. I was able to talk him into going down some of the faster slides. We all had a very good time. They wound up taking so many pictures of themselves in various spots around the park. It was a very special experience for all of us. I was glad I was there to take part in it. Im not meaning to over-dramatize this, but this very possibly was really a once in a lifetime experience for these four. I was so honored to be a part of it. I was so spoiled growing up at being able to go to waterparks on such a regular basis. I’ve forgotten til yesterday, how very privileged and blessed I was. We don’t really value what we have til we either lose it, or see someone else that doesn’t have it. I hope I can make a lifetime of sharing these amazing types of experiences with people that have not enjoyed them all too often. I often tell people that I want to be filthy stinking rich, so I can give it all away.
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