Birthday by the pool at the Sheraton Amman

Yesterday was one of my friend's birthday - I don't say how much, cause that's not polite haha, and she really wanted to go to the pool at the Sheraton, aka Club on Five, so that's what we planned and we had a fab day!

I really like the pool at the Sheraton, it's a lovely space to spend in the sun (or the shadow) and now the temperature of the water is perfect. It costs 20JD to have access if you are not the member, also on Fridays. I think it is the standard rate in Amman for the week, but I have heard that some hotels charge more on the Friday.

Outdoor pool at the Sheraton - Club on Five

Kids pool

It's really nice with the kids pool - when Bibs will be a bit bigger, she'll be able to walk around in it! All the kids loved it.

There is a also a pool bar, that serves salads, sandwiches and pizzas (no pizza during Ramadan though!), as well as drinks of course. Price wise I find it not incredibly expensive: I had a filet steak sandwich, with some really yummy bread and 2 glasses of fresh orange juice and paid something along with 18JD - that's OK for a pool in a 5* hotel.

No birthday without cake, of course. We had asked the hotel to prepare a cake for our friend... It was gorgeous: with a strawberry mouse and cream and coconut pastry!

Bibs' birthday cakes

Just a quick post to show you Bibs' birthday cakes. As it coincided with our return to Amman from  our holidays, we celebrated her big day twice: on the day and we were just the 3 of us and then a little bit later with her friends.

Bibs loves animals - during the holidays we took her to London Zoo and it was fabulous to see her laugh as soon as she saw the animals move. Also, my parents have been taking care of my cat since I left home (14 years ago, very good parents I know!) and when Bibs saw her she was ecstatic, most of the holidays we spent chasing old Minette, aka Eugenie.

Minette having a walk in the garden

So the cakes had to be animals... One of Bibs' favorite animals got to be the giraffe - so on the day that's what she got.

Her favorite bed time story is about Elmer the elephant. So yes, you guessed the second one is an elephant (not quite like Elmer though).

Bibs loved her 2 cakes!

Petra here we come

Tomorrow it's my birthday! I am dangereously approaching the mid-thirties, well well, we are all heading that way, aren't we? But to be honest I really wanted to stop counting when I got to 20 - waow, that's a long time ago.

Well for my birthday, Bobs has decided to take me here (picture from the Jordan Tourism Website):

I am so excited to see Petra, it was added to the World Heritage Site List of UNESCO in 1985. When I was kid and watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I would never have dreamt of ever going there. It has to be one of the most, if not the most amazing landmark in Jordan. We are driving down tomorrow, so we can visit early on saturday morning. I guess it'll take around 2 and half hours to get there. Bobs is organising everything, so don't know where we are staying or anything. I am really looking forward to this! Bringing back some amazing pictures of this trip.