I am here in Abu Dhabi!!!  Interesting thing....I logged on and everything ins in Arabic.  Have to figure that out.  Anyway, largely uneventful trip.  As hard as I tried by weighing my bags at the bus station, they still were overweight.  Enter the greatest Skycap in the world!  Like he said, you look out for me, I'll look out for you!  I had to pay $300 for my bags anyway, extra for overage was not happening!  So, checked my bags and sat down to wait on the plane.  Mom, Ethel, and Larry brought me to Norfolk, but they had left.  Here comes TJ, who waited with me until I went to catch my flight.  Fly to Chicago, and they tell me that the money that I had paid for my bags just had a receipt to Chicago!  I told the man that I wasn't paying any more money!  He said no, but I would have to go back to Terminal 1 to get United to fix it.  I was in International Terminal 5. Told him that that wasn't happening either.  So they fixed it!  On to Royal Jordanian.  Nice flight, pretty decent food....all the way to Amman, Jordan.  Got off, changed planes. Each time I got off the plane I had to do the TSA thing and get searched.  Nice plane ride with meal to Abu Dhabi.  They picked us up at the airport, had to do an eye scan, went through customs so fast that I didn't realize that we went to customs, picked up our bags, put us on a small bus, and brought us to the hotel.  Gorgeous hotel.  I am in the Beach Rotana, look it up!  Am supposed to be here until the 19th at least. Gonna be busy the next couple of days.  Tomorrow (Sunday) we will have our first orientation and I find out where I am living.  Monday and Tuesday we go to see it and start planning how we are furnishing it.  Well, gonna go out and see if I can find some adapters.  I bought some, but for some reason the laptop plug won't fit into the converter and I need a USB adapter for my phone.  The things I didn't think about!  And so the adventure begins......