News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
In preparation for the upcoming Soap Box Derby races they held a practice event to make sure the cub scouts could steer, brake, etc. Kai enjoyed it of course but the real fun was playing on the jebels afterwards.
The 100th day of school is coming up–a very big deal. Crystal has been working to bake, frost, and bag cookies in the shapes of 1’s and 0’s. This weekend work on the poster will commence — the aim is to create a display that best captures the essence of the number 100. In other news Kai was recently promoted to Tiger Scout at the annual Blue and Gold Banquet.
Here’s a few images from recent events. The big event was a shopping trip to Khobar secure a new bed. With traffic and construction the roads are as bad as ever and when the first store didn’t have anything we wanted we ended up going clear across town towards Dammam to hit the Seally showroom. The had exactly what we were looking for–one big block of firm memory foam. It needs to be shipped in from Jeddah so we are still waiting. Soon insh’allah.
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The iconic rock that sat in front of the Dhahran Middle School has moved. Since the campus walls went up more than 5 years ago the location of the rock has been the back of the school–hardly visited and rarely seen. With the completion of the new admin offices the rock was moved to a more prominent location that most visitors will pass on their way into campus. Here Crystal captured a shot of the move in progress ((This is the road where the buses turn to drop the kids off. Just up the street are the boy and girl scout houses)). |
Last month the big Cub Scout activity was the family beach day. No swimming as per Cub Scout regulations but it was a chilly, windy day so no one minded.
