More photos

So there is a main road here that everyone calls the Gulf road, a nice board walk, trees, beaches, restaurants and such, run beside it, Went over there for dinner last night, and walked along the beach for a bit, these are some photo's I took of the Persian Gulf at night time in Kuwait.

  

Huge potatoes

So I had some food delivered yesterday, in it were these massive potatoes. Every food store I've been in, big and small, have the largest potatoes I've ever seen. no idea where they are from, but wow.

   

Just under one month!!

Wow, I'm coming up on one month in Kuwait!
Busy at work, I will be working most of today getting ready for the week.
Finally bought a gym membership today! weighed myself on the way out of the gym...I've lost 12 pounds since I've been here....not a good 12 either....going to have to gain that back.

So in these next three photo's, you'll notice a "haze". That haze is dust in the air. The wind picked up last night and the whole place is hazy today. It apparently gets a lot worse than this!

 



So at the Avenues mall here, a huge shopping centre, there is an IKEA. Thought it was interesting seeing IKEA written in Arabic. All the western stores and chains are here, all written in both Arabic and English.

 

 

 

So obviously no bacon over here, but they have what they call breakfast strips. essentially smoked beef, veal, turkey or chicken pretending to be real bacon. A little bland in taste, but with eggs, hash browns and toast, it'll do just fine thank you.

 

This restaurant is between my work and the gym, never been there but I love the name. A little afraid of what they actually serve there.



There are what appear to be many abandoned cars around town. Real parking lots are few and far between. People park in vacant lots, of course the vacant lots are sand with some garbage thrown around just for effect. It is not uncommon to see cars that are damaged, flat tires, covered with sand and dirt and sitting literally for months or years in these vacant lots. Siting by work are some real beauties.

Trained in iaido last week, which went well, but in order to train at the club I would have to pay 600KD for a year...about $2200...not going to happen. I've been to better fitness clubs around here that charge half of that. Talked to some people at work, and I should be able to train at work on weekends, once that gets confirmed, I need to figure out how to get an iaito and a jo into the country!

So things are basically going well here, getting into a routine, figuring things out, and making do when necessary. So far, so good.

 

Water Heater

So got up this morning and there was water on my bathroom floor. Went down and got the building guy, he looked up in the crawl space. My water heater is shot.....get a new one tomorrow.

 

Chinese restaurant

So there is a restaurant across the street from work, food was okay, the menu was quite funny. Obviously when Indians are running a Chinese restaurant in Kuwait, things will be lost in translation. Here is a sampling. I wonder what happens to your figure if you eat their Fattush salad.....

 

more observations

So a few more interesting items that have come to mind recently.

In talking to our regular cab driver, he is driving a Toyota Corolla, I asked the cost of filling the gas tank. his answer? 2.5KD's. 2.5KD is about $8.75 CDN. No wonder there are many huge SUVs over here!

On almost all of the roadways there are speed bumps, yep driving along a regular road, you will come to a speed bump. one little road nearby is about 200 yards long, it has 7 speed bumps. Apparently with a new cabbie who doesn't understand the area, you tell take the road, and once you go over the 7th speed bump, turn right.

Had a local call an escalator an "electric stairway" today. Likely a translation error, but I thought it was funny.

The main shopping mall here is open to midnight or 1:00am Saturday night I believe. This is an evening culture as it is to damn hot through the day. The result is, the mall is packed every evening.

That's it,. off to bed, first day of school tomorrow!