The journey to Khartoum

I would to share the experience of bringing three kids across thousands of miles to Khartoum. We decided to go on Aliah's birthday the 5th of April. I was so glad that a lot of relatives and neighbours sent us off. It was very touching indeed, to be surrounded by friends and family. Thank you mummy, daddy, angah's family, adik, ayang, mamud, along's family, hanie, zali n ema, man n ina...Thank you for being there for us at the beginning of our journey to the far reaches of another world, so to speak.

The kids were excited, that was the first time they ventured into new experiences, long flights, new country...Luckily, we are travelling business class with emirates. Since Amir was under 2 years old, we couldn't get a seat for him, so he had to sit on my lap throughout the journey. As i said, thank God, we're travelling business class. Even then, it was not easy carrying a 13kg baby on your lap for 6 hours (KL-Dubai) and another 3 hours (Dubai-Khartoum). Aliah was excited playing games in the flight, Hadi was sleepy and Amir was boisterous.

We had to beak the journey in Dubai, stayed in the Meridien for a night as there was a 14 hour wait for the next flight to Khartoum. We were tired, slept late and we didn't have enough time to shop in Dubai. Never mind, as I want the journey not to be so tiring for the kids. From the hotel, we went straight to the airport and we went crazy at the choclate section of the duty free...hehehe...

Hadi was especially excited to go to Khartoum because we had already shipped most of his toys in January. We arrived in Khartoum in the evening, about 6 pm. Luckily I didn't have a very high expection of my stay here, so it was actually not bad (compared to my mental picture). We were met by a few Sudanese officials and everything went smoothly. But it was so hot......... Probably about 45degrees....We were wilting....

The accommodation is not too bad, we are currently staying in a 3 room apartment, spacious with a lot of room for the kids to play. I will continue later as I have to feed the kids...