The work week wasn't as busy as the one before, but still kept us pretty busy. We did manage however to go out a few times (dinner, quiz night, shopping) and it's beginning to look like Christmas in Oman! A lot of public places have Christmas trees and decorations; we even heard Christmas music in one of the malls! You can buy Christmas cards, trees (artificial or natural - for a hefty price!), decorations. It's great. We haven't seen Santa yet, but I guess he's busy in the North American malls and doesn't have time to see us yet.
On Thursday night, we went out to see a standup comic, Maz Jobrani , at one of the top hotels in the area, the Shangri-La. Being from the USA, we could understand what he was saying. Our big question going in was "What will he talk about?". Being in the Middle East, you have to give a show without swearing and where sex is not a prominent part of your act. He did a really good job, talking about the diversity of an international crowd like he had, sports refering to the world cup, the way people dress, parenting, age groups, also imitating the different accents of Africans, Indians, Latinos, ..
It was a very nice evening. Before the show, we had dinner on their outside patio, and since the hotel is a short distance out of town, there was no light pollution and we could see a bunch of stars up above. It was really nice.
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| Christmas tree in a mall |
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| Christmas tree an dGingerbread house at the Crowne Plaza |
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| Christmas tree in a restaurant |
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| Taken from one of Jacqui's math books - just too cute with Julie (blond hair) and Dave (brown hair) |
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| Christmas is coming in Oman, but the weather is still nice (picture taken Dec 4th!) |
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