Well, I had written a nice post updating you all on our adventures, and when I hit “publish” I lost the internet connection.  I didn’t have the umph in me to write it again, and Nancy did a better job than I did in capturing the moment, anyway.

For the last three days Muslim music has been blasting through the city.  Today is a Muslim festival celebrated by both Sunnis and Sufis.  One group is celebrating a victory, and the other is celebrating a defeat.  (Sorry – without a fast internet connection I’m too lazy to look up the name of the festival or which group is observing which event.)  The music goes on day and night, with just enough intermittent pauses to keep it from becoming white noise.  We thought it would stop today, but it seems to be going on and on. In the past few minutes the drumming has actually kicked up a notch. It does provide an interesting backdrop to our chick movie day, though, lest we forget where we are…

– Arleen