Brooke and Morgan have spent the weekend baking goodies and making jewelry to sell in the park today. They have set up a mock table to see how it will look.
The sale has begun and kids are coming out of the woodworks with their money!
A lot of houses back up to the park. Each of those brown doors are backyard gates. Our house is at the end of that sidewalk and across the street.
One family has put a tire swing in the tree, and all the kids love to play on it.
Many kids come to the park with their nanny. Here is one sitting with her charges.
Because we can't buy Christmas items here, people sell them in their homes. Some are handmade, some are brought over. For two days, four houses hosted a Christmas Caravan where you could drive to each of the houses and purchase a variety of items. One lady has a store in her front room all year so that you can buy cards, small gifts, and wrapping paper without having to leave the camp. During the Christmas Caravan, people moved their living furniture out and display tables in. It was fun to do a little shopping in the middle of our school day!
It's Desert Friday again and we're getting shawarmas for dinner. I took theses pictures to show all the different head coverings that women wear here. You can see the Westerners on the left, and then the Muslim woman, and then a Western man.
Here were some Muslim women sitting at the table next to us, and they all had such colorful head coverings.
And then the table on the other side of us had all of these women.
After eating shawarmas, Reese and Brooke decided to get in their PJs and watch a movie on the roof, outside Brooke's window.
Shadow is standing on Brooke's bed and looking out the window.
Here I am selling tickets to Brooke's show, the Aladdin Panto.
Only 30 Saudi Riyals per seat.
We decided to buy a patio table that would last for Bruce's entire stay and wouldn't rust or be difficult to keep clean. Tonight it's finally being delivered!
They had to squeeze it between a tree and a wall to get it in through our back gate.
...and lay bags of soil to roll it over.
Shadow's not sure about this.
Isn't it pretty!?
The week of Eid is over and everyone has to go back to school today--Desert Monday.
This morning we woke up to fog! I didn't know Saudi Arabia had fog.
These boys are our next door neighbors (from Africa) with their nanny, waiting for their morning school bus. I'm not sure how many different school buses go by in the morning, but each school has it's own bus, and they all look alike. Jordan knows her driver, so she knows which bus is hers. There are only two schools on camp... the elementary and the middle school. All the other schools are off-camp. I've been told that the Saudi girls are not allowed to go to our schools because they need their religious training. There is also a British school right next to Jordan's high school, and there is a Philippine school in Khobar.
The fog wasn't very thick and cleared away quickly, but I guess winter is on its way. The temperature is getting so cool that we have to wear sweaters. We're missing the heat now.
- Pattie -
