Changing plans

We had a great weekend! We went diving on Friday and then swimming on Saturday. But that wasn’t our original plan. I like having a plan before I do things. I like things to be just so…

These were the weekend plans.

Friday

Arrive in Muscat

Play Pokemon in the park

Eat lunch 

Check into the hotel

Relax and swim

Eat supper 

Anyone who knows me knows that I plan my life around my meals.

Saturday

Have breakfast

Go to the dive centre

2 Dives

Go back to Ibra

That was the plan but then the unexpected happened. The park was rented out for a private function. We weren’t allowed in.

Jurie: Why don’t we go watch a movie?

I check my phone for movie times.

Me: Movies only start at 2 pm

So we can’t go into the main part of the park where most of the Pokemon/Pokestops are. We can’t go to movies and we can’t check into the hotel. We stare at each other.

Me: Why don’t we cancel the 2 dives for tomorrow? Then do an afternoon dive today, we can come to the park tomorrow and do our Pokewalk.

Jurie phones the people and Plan B is a go.

New schedule aka Plan B

Friday

Short Pokewalk

Eat lunch

Check into the hotel

Dive

Swim

Eat supper

Saturday

Eat Breakfast

Go buy alcohol (Because it’s the start of a new month and we can)

Pokewalk

Swim

Go back to Ibra

I know the new plan was excellent, we thoroughly enjoyed our weekend but having to suddenly change plans causes me all sorts of anxiety.

On the plus side, we saw some camels while driving back to Ibra and we saw a father turn around and shout at his children in the car in front of us. It was quite comical. We tried to imagine what he was saying to his children.

Me: That’s enough! I’m going to stop this car and you’re going to walk home!

Jurie: We’re in a desert, I don’t think they can do stuff like that here. I think they would get sun stroke just standing outside for a minute.

Another thing I’m sure you are all going to get annoyed with is us telling you how hot it is here. But try and imagine it from our perspective. I just had a shower and had the water on cold but it came out scalding hot because the tank on our roof is in the sun all day! I seldom get hot. I never complain about the heat, I thrive in it. But this heat is beyond anything I have ever felt and it’s only going to get hotter. So Jurie usually knows, if I complain about the heat then it’s the depths of Mordor HOT! Just like I know when Jurie complains about the cold then it’s beyond the wall, COLD!

(If you don’t get the weather pop-culture references then you can’t be my friends anymore)

·         PS. Jurie tells me I can’t go disowning friends since I don’t have many of them to start off with. Mordor is a Lord of the Rings reference and beyond the wall is a Game of Thrones reference.