Friday, September 13th - Breakfast, and city tour

There is an organization in Kuwait called Canadians in Kuwait. They hold a weekly breakfast in a hotel nearby so six of us from our building decided to check it out on Friday morning. Breakfast was good; it was pretty much the typical buffet style breakfast that we get in any hotels back home (except for the bacon -pretty good - and sausages - not so much - which were made with beef). However, when we got there, there was a man sitting by himself so he invited us to join him. We learned he was from Calgary and worked for Kuwait Oil Company. After breakfast, he offered to take us on a tour of the City. We got in his company car, a Nissan Patrol (big ass SUV) and drove along the coast, thru downtown and all the way down to south of where we live. He showed us places to shop for just about everything and restaurants that we should go to. We saw some amazing places along the coast, beautiful beaches, Kuwaiti landmarks; it was great. We didn't get back home until 4h15.

Breakfast at Safir Hotel - Canadians in Kuwait

SUV's probably a gas guzzler, but at $ 0.19 per US GALLON, who cares!!

Prestige section of Avenues Mall : notice the sides of the escalators are in gold colour.

Coloured chicks, found at a small souk (market)

We went to talk to Jacqui's principal and VP after we got back, regarding her frame of mind about teaching SK. She really hates it. There is an opening in grade 3, thanks to the two teachers that jumped ship earlier in the week, so hopefully she can get that class. She will go in there for a bit on Sunday to gage the situation. Hopefully it all works out.

In the evening, five of us went for dinner at the Marina Mall. The marina and restaurants are on the gulf side (side we went on) and the mall is on the other side of the street, which we didn't cross. We went to a middle east restaurant (combination of lebanese, iranian, sirian foods and from other countries in the middle east). The meal was good. It was a very nice evening. We got home late by our new standards (11 pm)!