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A Family Adventure to the Middle East

Travel around the world and take a family adventure, right in your own backyard.

Tonight we traveled to the Middle East with the boys...

OK. It was really just our local Aladdin Restaurant but nontheless, it was an adventure. We had the the restaurant all to ourselves (thank goodness) and had a lovely Syrian waitress who happened to be the owners' daughter.

The boys loved the decor; ooohing and ahhhing at the camels, mystical lanterns; star-lit, fabric ceilings; beaded drapery and pillowed couches.

We ordered the appetizer sampler which offered the perfect assortment! The boys tasted, sampled and, yes, spit-out an array of middle-eastern fare including hommos, falafels, dolma (stuffed grape leaves), baba ghanouj, tabouleh and lamb and chicken kabobs. (I had to google every single one of those words.)

It would be an understatement to say they also sampled the pita bread.

pita-poisoning. pita-over-dosing. (I googled these, as well).

I had intentionally starved them since lunch hoping their famished selves would be more enticed by the 'new food.' Nic (8 and oldest) tried the most and the others we had to cajole a bit more, admittedly bribing them with 'dessert' and casually mentioning more than once 'this is dinner- there will be no. more. food. tonight...'

At the end of the meal the waitress helped me find middle eastern music on my iPhone, the boys ate a moroccan sugar cookie and Asher (3) whispered relentlessly in my ear 'I want to go to your house, mommy'.

He's not ready to move to Syria.

Luckily, we had the opportunity to just visit, tonight.
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Thank you Aladdin Restaurant - The Dougherty crew highly recommends!
651 Union Blvd, Allentown, PA 18109 · Get Directions

Belly dancing every Saturday night!

Parents~

You know how I love to get you shaking things up and getting out of your hamster-wheel rut. With a little planning, you too can take your whole family on an adventure right in your own backyard.

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