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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Ayat

My Birthday!

I am very lucky because the day of my birthday was on multicultural day at school, multicultural day at school is when all of us dress up from different countries and present them to the school(it will be in my next post for more details). So because of multicultural day we didn't have lessons, so there was no lessons on my birthday.  But the luckier part was that my mom told me that I am allowed to pick five friends and take them down to the Dead Sea for the day!!! I got so excited so I invited five of my friends to come from school with me to the Dead Sea to celebrate my birthday!

Photo: The Dead Sea

Photo: Sign at Dead SeaThe Dead Sea is a place 40 minutes away from were I live(Amman the capital of Jordan) it is the lowest point on earth and is so much fun.
 
There are swimming pools and beaches, and special mud that is very good for the skin. Lots of people go there for medical reasons as well as just to enjoy the weather, pools and beaches.

You may be thinking why it is called the Dead Sea; well it is called the Dead Sea because it is so salty that there are no animals living in it. A very cool fact about it is that if you swim in the Sea, you FLOAT  because of all the salt in it!
Me and my friends went down with my family and we had a blast.
We first went to the room in the  Hotel and changed into our swimming suits and then we hit the pool.


There was the coolest water slide by the pool so that's what we did first: go down the water slide! View image

Then we decided to  go down to the beach and put some mud on--that was lots of fun.
Photo: Girls dig into the mud
Photo: Ayat puts mud on her left arm
Photo: Two girls applying mudWe were putting it all over our bodies and were accidently throwing it on each other.

Photo: Girls applying mud
Photo: Girls covered in mud
After all the excitement we went to the restaurant Champions
 
Photo: Friends eating togetherand had the best birthday cake ever and ate a delicious supper!

Photo: Ayat and her birthday cakeIn the end my friends went back to Amman but me and my family stayed and spent a night at the Dead Sea! It was a great day and a fun birthday I wish I can go back in time and have have my birthday one more time.



38 Comments

Happy Birthday Ayat. It looks like you had a very nice time with your friends. You have a very nice mom because she surprised you with a very special birthday. How long was the drive? It looks like it was really warm in the Dead Sea. Do really flote in the water?

That's pretty funny, my friend's birthday was that day too! Hope you had a lot of fun! I wish I could live in Jordan, your posts sound so cool! How old are you now?

That is So Cool! I've always wanted to go to the Dead Sea! I think that would be an Awesome vacation!

Hey my birthday is on april 13
and this year my and my family whet to treego it was so much fun. I wish I could have been there with you lol,
Chelly who is now 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have fun.........

sup ayat ur bday looks lots of fun. And btw the mud thing i really wanted to try

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WHEN YOU GO PLACES I ONLY DREAM OF KEEP EXPLORING

awesome!!!!! U R lucky U went to the dead sea!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s. mud that makes your skin smooth is the AWESOMEST mud ive ever heard of!!!!!

I wish I had been there!!! Happy birthday!!!

Hey Happy Birthday. It really looks like you had a blast with all your BFFs. Was Dead Sea fun?

That's an awesome birthday party. We loved the pictures of you and your friends covered in mud.

hey looks like you had fun,lol! you had fun!!
and awesome you got a chance to go to the dead sea =D
wish i could go there too sum day !! =)

That was nice i WISH i WAS THERE TOO. hAVE FUN YOU ALL. I HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU ALL WHEN HOME HAPPY AND THE DAY WAS THAT LIVELY AND MUCH FUN.

I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR THIS YEAR ENDING AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL IN THE FURTURE.

TAKE CARE

MUCH LOVE

KINGSLEY

Oh my gosh, thats amazing you got to go there on your special day, congragulations!!!!!!!!!!!! That is totally awesome, I wish I could go to Dead sea someday. AWESOME!!!!

I wish I was there for your party. It sounds like fun.

OMG! Ayat your birthday looked really fun and I bet it was!! THAT BIRTHDAY WINS FIRST PLACE IN MY MIND!! Birthdays in Jordan must be amazing!

Hey ayat i luv yo bathing suit do u know where pakistan is well my parents r from there .i was born in texas.houston texas in the u.s. do u know how to read and write in arabic, i do , u probably do because of the fact u live in JORDAN duh.

How are you. I wish I could have been there. You must have had a lot of fun.

happy birthday sounds like alot of fun!!!!!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY your birthday sounds like heaps of fun!! i wish i could go to jordan i havent even been out of NZ

Sounds SUPER fun! It sounds like water world only way better!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Wow. Your birthday sounds great. I have only ever had one birthday party! I have really bad pollen allergies which affects my skin and gives me really bad eczema(skin condition). Maybe I should go!

wow! im going to jordan in the holidays with my mum.i really want to go there!

wow!! awesome!! it looks like u had a really fun fun fun birthday!!!

OMG! You probably had a lot of fun!

I love swimming pools. And this summer I would like to go to a beach. I hope you like my comment. (Lol!)

that cake looks good!

thats nice!

i cant wait to go swimming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats good.

Wow that is sooooooo pritty where r u i cant wait to go swimming!1!!!!!

that's cool hope you had fun =)

that must of ben fun

hey its my birthday in october and i am going to hollywood with my mum and my twin chloe it will be awsome
!!!!

love

tiffany

its my birthday on the 2nd of september and i just turned 9 i went iceskating and i live in belfast in northern ireland

thatz total cool

fun birthday!Ayat looks like you had a great time

Hi Ayat!
Well, I love your Blogs! P.S. I'll ask my dad if I can go to the Dead Sea sometime. I'll tell you when!
:D

happy belated ayat, i hope you loved your birthday! ( i am sure you did) sounds really fun to got to the dead sea!

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