Friday, December 4th - A four day weekend!!

We had a 3 day workweek, or a 4 day weekend, this week because of the national holiday. We didn't travel anywhere but did a few things around Muscat. We walked around the Matrah souq on Wednesday then had lunch at the marina. The souq was very, very busy since everyone in Oman is on holiday (so are people from the UAE). When they ran out of parking spaces, people made their own parking spots, using the sidewalks to park their cars.













We also went to the Exhibition Centre on Wednesday night; we saw some pretty cool things, including these cars.

We signed up for a dolphin watching boat tour for Thursday, which turned out to be a boat tour, as they forgot to tell the dolphins we'd be coming around to see them. The boat tour along the coast was however quite enjoyable.

fishing boats

part of Carlton Ritz Hotel

You know your boat is big when we can see it from the open sea side of the marina

Friday was a quiet day; we did some Christmas shopping online (we won't have time once we get back to Canada) and a bit of school work.We went for our usual walk on the beach on Friday morning: temperature at 28 degrees, water at about 82-85F; it is still very nice to walk and go in the water to cool off after a while. 

And now, the excitement is building; we'll be home in two weeks. We are so looking forward to seeing everyone again, or as many of you as we can (but we still like the 28 degrees outside!). Our two weeks at home will be hectic, but so be it; it will be a lot of fun!