Pictures from Hussein Park - Amman
The following are pictures I snapped during my somewhat revealing visit to Hussein Park yesterday. I say revealing because you have doubtlessly watched many a show on survival and “survival skills,” and yesterday I got to test just how much attention I was paying to these shows.
To make a long story short, I left family to take pictures. I did not take my cell phone with me and, an hour later, I found out that family had deserted their previous location and were nowhere to be seen. Family, on the other hand, had assumed that I had my cell phone with me and that I was a ring away ( in that light, family never knew I was lost ). I, however, imagined that family must be looking for me and that we are going in circles with both ends on the move.
Remembering what my father had told me some days ago ( for no obvious reason he said: “When you’re lost, do not move about”), I returned to family’s ex-location and waited. Of course, family were not even looking for me ( I think this will scar me forever). I waited, and waited, and waited.
I got bored eventually, and walked to the highest point in the park so that I can get a general view of the park and its visitors. Twenty minutes later, I spotted family and I hurried down to reassure them that I am OK. Family were surprised to know ( right at that moment ) that my phone was with them the whole time. So much for my version of Survivor.
That off my chest, onward to the pictures:
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February 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
<p>Wallah, really nice.</p>
<p>I’ve been to the King Hussein Mosque, but never took a look around the rest of the park; it looks like it is worth a visit this weekend. And perhaps, at last fulfil the desire to visit the Royal Automobile museum.</p>
<p>What time did you go? The park is so empty and peaceful, which is not what I expected!</p>
February 19th, 2007 at 12:12 am
<p>"Twenty minutes later, I spotted family and I hurried down to reassure them that I am OK"</p>
<p>LOL, was your family looking for you at all ? :D</p>
February 19th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Sk8erboi, I was deligthed to find the park semi-empty (always an ideal setting). I went at around 3:30 PM, and it was on a Saturday. I think the semi-emptiness of the park owes to the fact that many people had thought the weather too cool for an outing.<br /><br />Restless Soul, No. They were not looking for me, they did not even know that something was "not right" and that I was looking for them all along. This is what happens when you wander off away from the pack.<br />
February 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Nice pictures <span class="commentTitle"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" />Totoly !<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>Are they from the </span>Byzantine era?
February 19th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
<p class="MsoNormal">Hello G.,<br /><br />
This Hussein Park was opened two years ago I think, the locations in the park
are all as recent as that. They are modelled after certain original archaeological
findings or locations found in <st1:country-region _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
like the amphitheatre, mosaic, arabesque, etc. </p>
February 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
<p>Were you scared?</p>
<p>Did you Cry? I bet you cried. Were you angry at your family? Did you feel that some how they should’ve realized that they had the mobile and therefore should’ve been worried sick? Were you disppointed that they weren’t?</p>
<p>May be you realized that you were more dependent on your family than you had thought. </p>
<p>I dunno, I’m just trying to understand.</p>
<p></p>
February 19th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
<p class="MsoNormal">Sari, my friend, you have just put up a display of something
very similar to, if not indeed, psychoanalysis. <br /><br />
I like this. To answer you; no I was not scared and, sorry, no I did not cry. I
was also not angry at all, and did not feel that family should have realized
the cell phone bit. The whole time I was playing "survivor" in my
mind, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.<br /><br />
NOW the question is, did I go away precisely to live the illusion of being lost
and to try out my survival kit of skills? Mmm. <br style="" /><!–[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]–><br style="" /><!–[endif]–></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The possibilities are endless, and deep, deep in my subconscious.</p>
February 20th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
<p>psychoanalysis you say. Hmmm. My mind seems to have a mind of it’s own, and it seems its more educated than my own. :)</p>
<p>I must say I like your answer.</p>