Sunday, February 15, 2009

Malta, February 2009 - VIP

Karen and I had breakfast at the hotel then she went to her spa appointment and I went walking through Paceville. I went to check when the grocery store opens, by my surprise it opened at 9AM. I picked up lots of cheese. I met back up with Karen then we checked out and stored our luggage since the flight wasn’t until later. We decided to go for a walk and find a place for lunch. We ran into Gwen in the lobby, she was working on her laptop. We started talking and found out about my favorite driver Hassam. He was fired for being hit, what? She was very upset about that. Karen and I left for lunch, we ended up at one of the restaurants on Spinola Bay. It was great. We then walked up to the Bay Street shopping complex where I found my new trimmer and Karen found additional luggage. On our way back, we ran into Gwen and Maureen. We talked for a while then went our separate ways. We chilled out in the hotel lounge area for a while. I suggested that we head up to the roof deck. There was no one there but had awesome views of the area. We eventually got our ride back to the airport. We ran into Andrew at the check-in line. We arrived back in Tripoli on time. When I exited the boarding bridge, I noticed an airport official holding an AECOM sign. I said I was from AECOM and two others were on board as well. We flagged down Karen and Andrew then were escorted to the customs room where the airport official took our passports and processed them before anyone else in the room. We then were escorted down to baggage claim to await our checked luggage. After collecting the luggage we exited out to the waiting area were our AECOM drivers met us. This took all of 15 minutes of which the majority of the time was waiting for our checked luggage. I found out the next day that Omar had arranged for this VIP service, NICE!

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