Thursday, October 23rd - We finally have our car, and a long weekend!

Our week was pretty much uneventful. I had to go to the bank on Monday to collect my cheques. That  means waiting for about one hour to see a personal banker who then takes about 3 minutes with you to give you the cheques. We then went to the car dealer and gave the cheques and the salary certificate that we had gotten from school. I went back to the car dealership on Tuesday to sign other papers, before going out to Quiz night at the Crowne Plaza. We went out with other friends on Wednesday night, and sadly watched CNN when we got back home. What happened in Ottawa is just sickening. That being said, if such an act would have happened in the country that we are in, I'm sure we would have received a bunch of emails and messages telling us to come back to Canada because it would be too dangerous to live here. Just sayin'! On Thursday, We finally picked up our car after work. We are now the owners of a Honda City 2013, white in color (like the majority of cars in Oman). 

All week, the kids at school were talking about the possibility of a long weekend coming up as it is the Islamic New year on Sunday. Nothing was made official until Wednesday afternoon. It makes it hard to plan for a three day weekend when you're not sure if it will be there or not. Our plan is to just stick around, relax and use our car to discover the area a little more.

That's our car!