After 26+ hours of travel we are in the car and coming up on
the finally check point between Bahrain and Al Khobar, KSA. I am anxious to cross over and see the first
glimpses of what life will be like in Saudi Arabia when I see them. Just beyond
the final check point, peeking out from above the customs buildings are the proverbial
golden arches. McDonald’s! That’s it? The first thing I see as
I enter this strange faraway land is a McDonald’s.
It has taken a lot of prayer and jumping through hoops, but
we are both finally here in Al Khobar, KSA. Roberto left Denver on the 3rd
and I joined him a little over 3 weeks later.
It will be another 2 ½ weeks before our villa is ready so in a few days,
when the other men staying in the short-term employees villa return, Roberto
and I will be checking into a hotel for a couple of weeks.
Last night we went to dinner at a restaurant that was
recommended to us. It was a Lebanese “buffet,”
only you don’t go through a buffet line.
They bring you samples of everything to your table. Basically, it was a 5 course meal with multiple
dishes for each course. It was delicious
and we ate way too much.
Tonight we plan to go shopping for an abaya, that is, one of the black robes that the women
wear over their clothes. When Roberto
picked me up from the airport he had one with him so I could put it on before
leaving the airport. He got the abaya from someone who left to return to the
states. Only problem, she is several inches taller than I and, as such, it is
about 4 sizes too big. The sleeves land
below my hands and the bottom looks as if it has a train.
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| Anyone have a pair of scissors? |
6 comments:
Not very flattering, big or not. ;) Caden has already been talking about coming to visit you all. :D
Yeah! I think that is the point though. And we'll keep working on getting you here :)
Too funny! You could always just get some of those 5" heels that are so popular right now. Praying the villa becomes available quickly!
But it goes so nicely with your hair! Kind of makes you wonder what they wear under them. Do they go all out and wear expensive designer clothing that nobody ever gets to see?
From what I've gathered they actually deck out. When they are all women in private or with just family they take the abaya off. They dress nicer (i.e. dressier) than we casual and often sloppy American tend to dress. It definitely makes me lazier, especially when I know we are just going shopping and then home.
Enjoying your blog. Glad to see y'all made it safely.
If your hair was longer, you could be Morticia from the Adam's family!
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