My Precious

This weekend we picked up our rings, walked around Solidere and Bourj Hammoud taking pictures, hung out at Torino, and marvelled at the completely lackluster response to the Beirut marathon.

We started the week off with a bang by going down to the General Security building at 8:30am and finding out that we have to leave the country between now and Wednesday to renew our visas. This is annoying and inconvenient (especially since we were finding it exceedingly difficult to get this information via telephone or internet), but ultimately not a big deal. We haven’t decided yet whether to just do a quick trip to the border and back or take a romantic two-day getaway in Aleppo instead.

Not only where these about $100 cheaper than I thought they’d be, but our man knocked off another 30 bucks because he felt we had to wait to long for the engraving…which he didn’t charge us for because it was his “gift” to us.

I believe this is the only TGIFridays in the world with a view of ancient Roman ruins. I am not very well-travelled though, so I could be wrong. Do they have TGIFridays in Italy?

The mighty, filthy Beirut River.

Amy. Coffee. Torino.