Crazy day! 11 hours
total of driving time, but 2 hours of that was a mistake. We left Riyahd at 8:05 and drove through some
pretty cool scenery for about an hour.
Then, we received a call that we’d forgotten our black bag at the
hotel. It had our passports, iqamas, an
iPad, 2 Macbook Airs, the kids’ medicine, and all of our charging cables. We had left it on the curb when we were
packing our car. One of the workers
found it and turned it in for us and the manager called us and told us to come
back. We were so lucky!
As bad as it was to add 2 hours onto our trip, we were glad
to do it to have all of our important stuff back. The 9-hour drive to Taif wasn’t bad at
all. Straight shot on one road, and we
saw some interesting things on the way.
The checkpoints along the way had some cool gateways, there was a Ferris
wheel out in the middle of nowhere.
There were all of these small little towns along the highway with these
neat little parks. The terrain started
out very rocky and steep around Riyadh, then flattened out and became smoother
terrain as we got closer to Taif.
We arrived at 7:00 fairly refreshed at our hotel called Awaliv
International Hotel. It is the tallest
building by far in the city at 30 stories.
The rooms were nice, and we let the boys play in the room to burn off as
much steam as possible. Even though the
drive was 11 hours total, the boys did so great. Alex just chilled in his car seat the whole
time napping, and James watch some videos, played with his toys, read some
books, napped, snacked, and sang some songs.
Again, if our bag had not been found, we would’ve been dead
in the water. We were also lucky in that
we’d only driven an hour outside the city. It is nice to know there are some
good people still out there.
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