While on "ihram" during my first umrah. Sometimes in April 1999. Outside the windows is the masjidil haram. I prefer to do umrah in the evening, or even late at night, because of the weather.

This is during my second umrah. I'm still staying at the same hotel, cause its the closest to the Masjidil Haram. See my notebook at the back, its an IBM Thinkpad 770E (266 MHz) with a whopping 288 Meg RAM. Its cool. Can't leave home without it.

Its good if you stays here, cause you can have you night stroll by doing the tawaf. Umrah usually take me 2 hours. So, after finished up all my work during the day, and if I get enough energy left for additional 5km walk, then I do the umrah. This time, I get back to the hotel really really tired, cause I have to push my pregnant wife and 2.5 years old daughter (she was sleeping) on wheelchair during the sa'ie between safar and marwah.

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