Yes, that was an adventure in itself for they had to make various stops to retrieve their passports from the various custodians that had them. They had a local imam nee Morocco along to handle all of this in Arabic. But there were Egyptians on their bus that were headed for a different terminal. So another bus was summoned for them but just offloading their bags - and water - took forever.

Our Sammy is from Sri Lanka and grew up "queuing up" but no one does that at Hajj! He said he could wait for an hour and get no food while all the people who knew not to stand in line scooted in and got their meals. Anyway, I hope he's better soon and I hear more about all this. Absolutely amazing.