I Feel Good ...

I have been busy over the previous couple of weeks ..with an influx of visitors and am grateful that the trend will continue until August 16 - when my last scheduled visitor is booked to leave!

Instead of quiet and gloom.. it has been busy here .. with breakfast every morning in the bright sun, shopping expeditions and hanging around tourist sites and pretending to be one .. just to hype up my visitors!

The trip takes on a new level from tomorrow - as we raid the Big Apple and then move on to the Windy city of Chicago! There is a excitement in the air and lots of anticipation. The girls are excited and have already exceeded their airline quota of allowed checked in baggage! We will leave the loaded bags behind as we make our way around NY and Chicago (!!) and I wouldn't be surprised if we returned from there too with excess baggage!

But aside from all this - what really is exciting me is that I have not looked back at Bahrain since the Bahrainis arrived at my doorstep. I have not read the papers or checked the news. I have not worried or concerned myself with what the papers were saying or what was happening. I haven't had a chance to reflect on the daily chaos and madness... and letting go is sort of liberating .. and enjoyable .. in a way I never thought was possible before!