K9karen and others:

Thank you for your concern. I am doing fine and Beirut has not been physically affected by the war in Iraq. I am due back in Atlanta on Friday. My flight out of here was cancelled, but I have already found an alternative flight to Paris and will be able to catch me flight from there to the US.

Andrew and Drake are doing fine. Andrew is currently in survailance training. He can be called up though for rotary flight. I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed. He is pretty optomistic that they will not call him up.

I miss you guys. Sorry it took me a while to post, but I have been very busy and terribly preoccupied. Not to mention sick. Pretty bad cold My sunny weather turned rainy since the second week I was here

Love to all, Souraya