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Day one…

Last minute packing as always, I had over 15 things on my todo list. Sync iPod, char he camera, test blog, set alarm at 5:00am don’t forget your jacket… So you can imagine I was thinking of all the little things and make sure I didn’t forget anything. So I ended up not sleeping also partly because I’m so excited to finally climb my 7th Summit.

Flight is at 9:35am had to leave Sharjah by 6:00am to avoid the traffic, so I had a lot of time to spare. Mean while Masoud landed from Tehran at 6:30am, Masoud being Masoud he has to cause drama in the airport. He decided to leave the airport go to his house on SZR pickup his climbing gear, showe and then come back to the airport to checking for the Seattle flight. Knowing that there is double the security checks to the US flights, I offered that I will pick his bags up and drop check them in so he doesn’t need to. But it’s useless to agree with Masoud. If he doesn’t make I’ll have the tent all for my self ???? 

Raed is already in the Sates and will meet us in Seattle. Suzanne is the fourth member on the team who will meet in Alaska on the 10th.

Just minutes before takeoff Masoud decides to show up so now I’m back to sharing a tent with him. It a 14.5 hour flight and I tried my best to sleep as much as I can.  But as usual there was min sleep.

5 movies and 2 meals later we landed in Seattle at around 12:30pm. Thus having the whole day infront of us. AJ our friend and fellow mountain climber came to see us off from Canada and Raed arrived at 4:30pm se we spent the rest of the day catching up.

We did manage to visit the original Starbucks on Pime Place that opened in 1971. You know the saying Starbucks at every corner? That doesn’t apply in Seattle it’s 2 Starbucks at every corner here. We had to have coffe from there before calling it a night. Due to jetlag we retired for the night at 8:30pm