News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
Holiday cheer is in full swing on Sharar Circle. Trees are up, treats are made and Christmas specials have been viewed. The “Holiday” playlist on the iPod runs on shuffle-repeat all day long – with almost 700 songs it takes a while to hear any repeated though I must say that tracks from The Bob Dylan Christmas album make far more appearances that may be expected by chance. Enjoy the pictures…
Last weekend we headed over to Bahrain to catch a show and shop for a few things it is difficult to find here. We hadn’t been in a while but we needed to activate our new visas at any rate and things seemed calm. Nora clearly listens to dinner conversations as she made us promise to turn around and come home if we “see any war.” In the event we didn’t see any war at all and you wouldn’t know there was recent unpleasantness if it weren’t for the armored battalion camped around the remnants of the pearl roundabout.
Waiting for the movie to start we hit a coffee shop across the mall where I snapped a few pictures with the iphone.
Truth be told it was Friday, not Sunday that the Easter Bunny came. Since Sunday is a work day here we put in a special request that he visit us early and, since Dad has some Easter Bunny wasta, he was happy to comply.
The Easter Bunny hid some baskets with books and a new toy in the house and then left a series of clues scattered through the house. Each clue was a picture inside an egg that led to the next clue until finally the basket was found. Kai and Nora really got into it and it was a hoot to watch them decipher the trail.
When that was done we found the Easter Bunny had left some plastic eggs hidden outside. Some had chocolate and some were filled with confetti that looked like someone had emptied the bin on an automatic 3-hole punch. Clearly the Easter Bunny works in an office when he isn’t doing his egg gig.
