What Happen In Makkah Do Not Stay In Makkah !

 

يتحدث الجميع عن روحانية مكة

وعن التغيير الذي تركته في أرواحهم تلك الأراضي المقدسة

حين لجأوا لها تائبين منيبين...

كُتب لي عمرة في رحابها!

وكم كنت سعيدة برحمة الخالق الذي أمكنني

 من القيام بشعائره

 وأدعو الله إن يتقبل مني ومن جميع المسلمين...

 

 

Now, let's get down to business!

Granted, it was crowded; I mean it's always crowded in makkah.

Once we got there, we prayed al- Fajr near the Kaaba which felt amazing and so spiritual. The kaaba has its own glory; you can hardly take your eyes off of it. It was very mesmerizing.

After that we started circling around it for our tawaf.

Umm, you might want to be extra careful not to step on those HUGE grasshoppers!

Lucky me! It's their season -_-  

They were EVERYWHERE! Some of them flying, others were jumping making weird noises when they hit the ground; most of them though were dead and squashed to pieces.

Nope, you do not want to step on that! I think you got the pretty picture I'm trying to paint here :) God, my eyes were glued to the floor trying to do some damage control -_-

 You can see hundreds of workers cleaning the place, but they definitely can't control Mother Nature can they? Speaking of which, other than the beautiful pigeons flying all around the place looking pretty, there was another kind of birds, I don't know what it called. But what are different about them were their nests. They were built as a ball somehow with a small hole so they can get in them. It looked like nothing I ever seen before, they sang beautifully too.

After that we went to Al-safa and Al-mrowa pacing between them.

There were a lot of Iranians who were a big group and they move together causing us to scramble like pieces of a board game -_-
After that, we prayed behind The Sacred Site Of Prophet Ibrahim.

Trust me, when you pray there you turn into a lion guarding your territory! Because the little space you barely have to rest your forehead on become in danger! People keep pushing and shoving until you are suddenly out of your zone -_-

I discover something there, I do have an issue with strangers touching me and leaning on me to stand up!

Last time I checked I was a live breathing human been not a wall or a walking stick!

Also, Kids were running around as if it was a playground!

Their parents didn't bother with them at all. They let them bother

us instead :)
It wasn't all bad of course, there were some women who were giving candy and dates which helped a lot in settling those kids. (Thank you!)

We finished Al-Umrah and went back to the room to cut little of our hair.  Of course my haircut was ruined! I totally have shorter hair on the right side of my head (Damn, where is Connie when you need her?).
 
The best thing is that I was able to go with my grandma, mom and uncle. We slept in one room, and God do some of them snore!

(I'll keep their dignity and won't say who ;P) *sigh* I'm too kind sometimes ;)

Since I'm from Riyadh, sadly we don’t have ALBAIK (I KNOW, IT'S CRAZY, RIGHT!) can who ever created that restaurant please kindly open it here, I do NOT look cool holding a plastic bag with their meals on the plane! So not cool!

My sister told me that if I didn’t bring her the meal, I better not come back at all! (doesn’t it look like a threat? Anyone? No? I guess you met my sister then!)

So I got the shrimp meal for myself and I was enjoying it until mom kindly said that shrimps reminded her of the HUGE grasshoppers (needed to be in caps guys, you did NOT see them!).

Feel free to imagine my face after that wise comment from mom -_-

So, my grandma is awesome I mean I love her, DAH! But she could be a little tiny just a bit stubborn sometimes :)

 Like when you are already full and she keep swearing that you must eat this or that!

Or what happened in makkah, we were afraid that she will get lost in the crowd so we kept telling my uncle to hold her to insure her safety. She got angry and said in a gentile sweet low voice (let's play a game shall we? get the opposite of the three words describing her voice and you will get 30% only out of what happened!) that she can handle herself very well thank you very much! So we twisted it a bit, we told her that my uncle is going to get lost and she had to hold him! Worked like a charm!

I enjoyed it so much; it was somehow a gift from God because I wasn’t meant to go in the first place. So, I'm very thankful. I really needed it to get away, even if it was for a while :)