While my birthday birthday had turned out to be a bust, I still had a chance to make my birthday awesome. The week before I'd made reservations for Abby and I to go to the Al Hammam Arabic Baths at 2 pm on Saturday for an hour of relaxing baths and a half hour massage. I'd never been to any sort of a spa before, and decided that my 24th birthday was the perfect time to try it out with one of my best friends in tow.
Oh. My. God. What an amazing experience it turned out to be.
Someday I may come back to this post and try to begin to describe how amazing and mysterious and cultural and relaxing and transcendental and blissful the whole thing was. But for now, I prefer to say only that it was utterly ineffable and something that Abby and I certainly plan on doing again. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever walked into! In all honesty.
As we emerged, two hours later, out of the dark baths with calming music, all you could drink tea, essential oils swirling our noses, the soothing Arabic music dancing in our ears, the hypnotizing steam room and the amazing massage... We were blissed out. The sunshine blinded us a bit, but it felt so nice on our freshly scrubbed skin! We just sort of stood there, still in trance, for a few minutes.
The rest of the day was filled with a devious Thai food lunch, strolling down one of my favorite Portlandesque streets and doing a bit of shopping, two cookie stores with lots of yummy cookies, a long walk, tapas and talking.
Over all, the best birthday celebration I could have asked for!! <3
XOXO
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