It has been four months since I have seen my daughter! She is finally here. Sarah got here on the 16th of December and Alison got here on the 17th! I was so excited! Unfortunately for them they had great difficulties readjusting their internal clocks. They slept during the day and stayed up all night.
The hard part of them coming here to Bahrain as opposed to going home to Texas is that I feel like I should be doing something with them every day....there isn't THAT much to do in Bahrain. At home we would be laying around watching television, eating, and they would be visiting friends....but here we are looking for things to do that everyone will enjoy.
We visited the souks. That was all right, but Alison hates that kind of aggressive sales. She just can't do it...she doesn't like to haggle either...she gets that from me. Sarah got some really nice stuff from one of the vendors in Gold City. We didn't stay long because Alison was ready to go...they are kind of scary if you have never been. We drove to the beach at Zallaq and took pictures and Sarah and Maddie waded in the Gulf. It was a pretty day! We drove by the base and by the Bahrain School in Juffair. Of course we went to Seef and City Center. We drove by our old apartment hotel in Seef. We went to the camel farm and got to see two baby camels...one was 4 days old and one was 5 days old. Sarah got to sit on a camel. There are a lot of flies and it stinks...no one else wanted to sit on them. I think the camel farm is pretty cool....Sheikh Mohammed opened it because with the prevalence of automobiles as transportation the camel has become scarce here. When the Bahrainis were a bedouin society they counted on the camels. The sheikh seeks to preserve the camel. It is free to visit the farm.
We took Sarah and Alison to Adhari Park. It is an arab amusement park...I don't think I have ever seen any other Westerners there...ever. There is a ride there called the Japan Coast and it would NOT make it as a ride in the USA...as a matter of fact...almost NONE of those rides would be allowed in the US. There is obviously no OSHA here. The Japan Coast spins you around and bounces you up and down while you are sitting in a seat with no seatbelt. It is quite frightening for a parent to watch!
We also went to see a movie at Saar Cinema and went and painted at Cafe Ceramique. That was fun!
Our first few days were just spent adjusting their sleep patterns and touring the town. We left for Dubai on the 21st for our Christmas break....that is the big gift we gave the girls this year.
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