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Vacation with the hubby

Hey Peeps! Today is the start of my 13 days off for vacation! Adam & I are heading over to Baton Rouge on Friday for the weekend to see my brothers and their family and a guy I grew up with and his wife are having a baby girl tomorrow -naming her the same name as my 4yr old neice in Baton Rouge. We had no idea until we saw them at our house in May and was talking about baby girl names. They had no idea my little neices name was the same exact name and spelling they came up with!
Monday - Thurs Sept1st (Adams bday) we will be in Fort Walton & Destin Florida on the beach! Soooo looking forward to vacation time! White sand and blue/green water is going to be sweet! We are really looking forward to spending time together and relaxing.

For those of you that have facebook and are always on our page, be looking for plenty of vacation pictures!

Take care everyone!

-Tamara & Adam

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-08-24 17:23:00

August 2011

Pretty hot in Houston Texas. Too much for me, wishing for snow... or at least a vacation up north!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-08-02 18:36:00

Question on Islam?

I am not muslim but I do have personal experiences due to some family that is.... I have family that is muslim that has been to church before for various occassions. As well as there are muslims that even visit Joel Osteens church in Houston Tx. Its my own opinion that you and your hubby should do as you both see fit for your family and not worry about people telling you what you should not be doing.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-08-15 12:03:00

I'm Confused

Back in Jan 2008, Adam flew from Egypt to France to Atlanta Georgia where I lived. So ATL was his POE. I love ATL airport!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-08 04:40:00

No more Visas issued at airport in Egypt

Good! I sooo miss ATL Ga, but our H-town rocks! Go Houston Consulate! Im really glad we dont live very far from there either, just a straight drive into Houston for us. Lucky for my sister too, when she needed her visa to India the Indian Consulate is just right down the road too!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-10 00:56:00

No more Visas issued at airport in Egypt

Not sure if its wise to trust in an online thing right now to get your visa. This is something new w/Egypt and if they are saying get it done through the Embassy then thats probably the best way to go for now. Can you pay the post office to over night the passport and also show the embassy your flight itenary of the date you are flying to Egypt and ask that Egyptian Embassy send it back to you asap so you dont miss your flight?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-09 13:37:00

No more Visas issued at airport in Egypt

Is it the same for us who are married to Egyptians? I wonder if we still will be paying a fee or not? Like if we bring our marriage cert w/us or hubby to the Embassy?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-09 12:18:00

Another question he had asked me, is there any way just to have an engagement ceremony over there but in the church but not be officially married? Or whatever he and his fiance do in the church, will make them come out and be married?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-18 19:53:00

I called my friend from Syria (her husband is Jordanian) and they married overseas. and yes, they are Christian (Greek Orthodox to be exact). Anyway, she said that they have to make an appointment with the church and get married in the church. The priest will give them papers to take to the civil registry to register the marriage with the courts.

Thanks girl! I'll pass this message on to Wassim unless he beat me to it by reading it already. I had thought it was going to be like how Adam & I did it in Egypt, but its not.

Edited by ~PalmTreeGurl~, 18 September 2011 - 07:52 PM.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-18 19:51:00

Wassim, maybe call the US Embassy in Jordan and ask them?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-15 23:00:00

And once married and CR1 is applied for, about how long is the normal processing time til the Interview?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-14 23:59:00

He will go there and marry her, and apply for CR1 -spouse visa.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-14 23:38:00

Hi again MENA peeps! Another question for a friend! If two people are christian, one US citizen and one Jordanian, can they just have a courthouse wedding over in Jordan, or do they have to have a church wedding?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2011-09-14 23:05:00

MENA Daily Chat 1.0

Mine does the same thing on his days off, And_Sam. I mean the staying up most of the night watching TV or playing with the Xbox then coming to bed about an hour before I get up. My biggest thing is the smoking all night and the smell drifting into my bedroom and waking me up. Sucks. I can't breathe and I feel like getting up and cracking him over the head.

Ooohhhh I know this same feeling! Back in Georgia in our apartment,I have the no smoking in the house rule and when I fell asleep he would be smoking in the living room... Im a light sleeper so I could smell it in my sleep. I would jump out of bed so fast chasing him back outside and his excuse was there was oppossums outside or some lizard. I hate the smell of cigarettes and sure as heck dont need our house smelling like it or the cats having to breathe it in!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-09-24 12:57:00

MENA Daily Chat 1.0

Hello MENA Peeps! I've started my 3 days off today. Got my nails done and a 1 hour massage from Massage Envy. The house Adam and I were hoping for didnt go through on the sellers end. They were unwilling to do any repairs, so we offered to do them... then they needed a new roof and were only willing to pay $3000, so I found someone to do that for them... then they cancelled on selling the house. So, now we are either going into an apartment or going to check out another house tomorrow thats a 3 bedroom 1 bath.

Hope all is doing well! Has anyone seen Monica lately? I havent seen her on here or Facebook lately.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-09-23 22:38:00

MENA Daily Chat 1.0

Hey MENA Ladies! Glad to see yall doing ok today! We are about to adopt a kitten that was left at a grocery store. Shes grey with tan patches. We are going to have to come up with a good name for her.
Hopefully my other cats Candy & Alex wont be too jealous or mean to her bcz shes so little.

We are still in the process of the house buying. The one we have been working on getting is still being worked on. Waiting to see if the sellers will pay to fix the roof, of if they will pay for it out of their money at closing... If they agree then we are good to go and almost done.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-09-09 18:32:00

AOS APPROVED!

Congrats!!! Feels great to be done for awhile!!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-02 21:58:00

my interview the october 13 2010 at Casablanca

Did you get your passport back? I know a fella from Egypt that was told approved and would get his visa in 2 weeks and its now 2 months later! Was wondering how things are going for you

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-10-28 11:00:00

HALAL Food

I dont know exactly how true it is as a whole, but for us when we have bought halal meat -usually goat, lamb or chicken, it seems to stay fresh alot longer than regular grocery store meat. Does anyone else find that to be so ?

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-19 00:57:00

quick question: anyone bought a bidet or shattaf from a website? Any suggestions which website??

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-19 01:07:00

Painting is harder than I thought! Defintely not going to do anymore than what we already did... its enough and what a chore! Pics will be on facebook for our house. Hopefully our bed will get moved over to the house and Saturday we will have our fridge and stove. Last night at moms house but she's only 1 mile away so I will still be over here alot!
Hope everyone is doing well, cant believe Thanksgiving is less than a week away! We are having around 25 or so family members at my grandparents house on Thursday. Friday for "black friday" I have to be at work at 445am... sooooo not looking forward to that! But... that night we are going to the Jeff Dunham show with a brother of mine I havent seen in 10 yrs and a friend I grew up with and havent seen in about 6 yrs. Its going to be a great week!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-19 00:50:00

YAY! 4.3% interest, no down payment and the only thing I had to pay at closing was $40.76! Amazing! We just got home from putting some small stuff over there. Tomorrow we are getting the fridge and stove! I'll be taking pictures soon and posting facebook!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-13 02:15:00

I'm up early bcz I cant sleep anymore! Today we sign for the house! The only thing is it might be days before we start living in it bcz its going to be raining for days and I work all afternoon/night for the next 5 days.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-12 09:30:00

Congrats on the house Tamara!!! Wanted to post and let you know hubby got is teaching certificate today and he was so excited. Now on to the fun of looking for a teaching job!!!

Thanks Betsy! Congrats to your hubby!!! What will he be teaching??

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-10 22:52:00

Congratulations Tamara!

Thank You Sara! Its crazy how perfect the timing is in our life to be getting a home. I spent thousands on apartments and living away from family while living in Georgia, now a year later here in Texas near family we will have our first home!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-10 22:35:00

YAY! We got approved for the loan on the house! If the title company is open tomorrow then we close on Friday! OMGosh! We are about to be first time homeowners!!! I'm sooo excited! Get to get a brand new fridge and stove! Paint the walls! Decorate my own house!!! Party over at the new soon to be Abdelsamad house!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-10 19:03:00

Morning Jeanne! I also found out that there's free meals at Chili's & Golden Coral. Hope you have a great day!

We are waiting to hear from the USDA loan for the house, everything else is complete down to the pending receipt of this loan. Closing is supposed to be Friday. Hopefully I hear the news today for the time on Friday. Its exciting and nerve racking at the same time dealing with buying a home.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-10 10:08:00

Dead fiancées

I haven't heard this either...my fiance wasn't in a serious relationship before me either. Also think everyone needs to calm down a bit...she was just asking if it was true or not.

Monica

Well Monica, thats not what the OP wrote in her first post. She wrote that while talking to other fellows that she noticed almost every arab guy who is interested in marrying a foreign woman had a fiancee or Gf who died under tragic circumstances.
I mean, how many guys do you talk to that have that happen to them? I've not heard of one and I worked with Arabs and go to church with Arabs and friends with several that are now married to Americans and Europeans. Thats just strange to me that she heard of oh so many guys in that situation.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-02 21:54:00

Dead fiancées

I have found out talking with fellows that almost every arab guy who has interest to marry foreign woman had a fiancée or close girlfriend who died under tragical circumstances usually before the wedding. It seems that this is a "nationwide game". I wonder who many of your men came out with such story.

Cipriana, what was the point of your fiance telling you that he had a dead fiance? I'm just curious as to what the point of his story to tell you was? And do you have other arab guy friends that all had that same situation? Strange stuff to me.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-02 20:35:00

Dead fiancées

This was never a situation for Adam and I. I've never heard of dead fiance stories before from any male or female middle eastern person or friend that I knew. I think someone has been feeding someone a story.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-11-02 20:26:00

Happy Birthday Jeanne & Kenza

Happy Birthday Jeanne!!! Happy Birthday Kenza!!!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2010-12-19 17:31:00

Morning Aya!!!

When Adam had his interview he took emails... not alot though, but I dont think the CO even looked at emails. I believe they looked at some pictures of us which had us together and me with his sister and mother ect.

I dont think its necessary to take 100 pages bcz more than likely they arent going to look at but one or two emails if that. So, pick ones that talk about your love, engagment, being with him always ect..

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-11 08:45:00

QUOTE (Jenn! @ Dec 6 2009, 12:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (JeanneVictoria @ Dec 6 2009, 11:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (Kenza @ Dec 6 2009, 09:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Agree with all of you... The outcome? When it starts getting late for him lol then he comes and has to stay with me until I'm finished babysitting cuz i'm not going to quit my job or lose clients ( which I have lost one a year ago when this issue arose) because of him.

Good for you Kenza!!! I'm very proud of you!

tripple thumbs up! You go girl!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-06 17:58:00

QUOTE (Ahmed N Tina @ Dec 5 2009, 09:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Said he likes it, didn't say he always gets what he likes or wants

Some of us have had our hubbies with us a little less time than others and are still working out the kinks. Everything in due time.

Good luck Girl!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-05 20:51:00

oh gosh! I have work at 6am tomorrow, Im glad my husband doesnt impose a "what time I leave for work" curfew on me

Again, I will say this... one of the things I hate is men that control and manipulate women.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-05 20:44:00

and another thing.... 9:30pm ??? ... lol Im pretty sure your own parents wouldnt have made you have that kind of curfew for a job... I know mine didnt.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-05 19:01:00

Isnt it funny though (not really) but if they had a job to do past 9:30pm then they would be doing it whether we said no or not? Im pretty sure Adam said the same things to me, but it obviously doesnt work

My words to him are, Im doing what I did before I met you and if there was a problem with me working and taking care of the home before I met you, GOD would have told me otherwise. Else LEAVE it alone dude!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-05 18:42:00

QUOTE (Kenza @ Dec 5 2009, 03:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

my curfew is 9 30!!!!!

thanks for letting me vent

Girl, tell him its a job and theres no curfews on jobs! Sometimes I work til midnight at Walmart, its not like Im going out to party and I wont even go there about that if I choose... LOL its a job, no curfews on a job... He needs to deal with it. This isnt Morocco or Egypt. Its the USA.

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-12-05 17:50:00

Aya, Adams sister Peri lives in Cairo. Maybe we can ask her to help you. Let me know!

~PalmTreeGurl~

Female

Egypt

2009-09-17 22:36:00