Ramadan mubarak to all bloggers, may Allah accept your efforts and i hope every one gets the best out of the blessed month.

i love Ramadan...

oh and I'm so happy autumn is coming to hence the leaf shaped kaabah :)

I've not blogged in a while because I've been away doing umrah :)

mashallah it was fantastic and the atmosphere was amazing subhanallah.

i was really excited to go because the last time i was in mecca and madina was 2 years ago for hajj and that is where i met my husband who was part of our group, so we both experienced hajj but separately and this time we where to travel together and perform umrah together so it was nice aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw :)

we arrived in jeddah at around 10pm, we got driven to mecca which is about 40 -45 min drive, got taken to the hotel, rested a bit and then walked the 5 minutes to the haram, and seeing the haram again was amazing, the whole place takes over you and you forget about all your problems, life, bills, application forms etc... its simply serenity...

obviously i took pictures but the ones inside the haram where from my mobile as my camera is too big to hide and it would have been taken away from me, so my mobile it had to be and it did ok...

sun set on my way to medina...

they are alot more stricter in madina with the camera so i was only able to take the one photo :(

whilst i was there i took a pic of a cat what i didnt realise was that the cat was playing with something, my worst night mare a coakroach yuk!!!

finnaly some pic of the mountains on the way to jeddah

its always weird to come back after visiting mecca and madina, you kinda get absorbed by the life style of praying in the haram and listening to the adhan and generally having more ibadah in your life.

mecca and madina is filling up pretty fast with people who are coming especially for ramadan, by the time we left it was choca block...

oh and libyans where every where, seriously every time i would come to pray garenteed i would see or hear a libyan lol, mashallah :).

i passed my theory test wooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo, congrats to me, seriously its a big deal for me cause it means im closer to driving and think of all the time i could save yesssssss.

i have to admit this was third time lucky, i failed the lats 2 tests because of the stupid hazard perception that completly confuses me with all the ticks.

anyway i passed yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

ok next blog entry for the past month or so ive been ranting and raving about going to the zoo, and low and behold on sunday i was pleasantly surprised to be taken to the zoo unexpectadly, i was told to take my camera and i found myself in chester zoo much to my delight.

so here are the photos, enjoy...