Mosque Visit

Back in January Crystal and I had the good fortune to get a guided tour of a variety of mosques around the Khobar./Dammam area.  The mosques ranged from the historical to the modern and all were a pleasure to visit.  We could not have been welcomed more warmly.

Visiting Uncle Eric

Aunt Julie and Uncle Eric are moving to Bahrain!   Uncle Eric has already arrived and we drove over on Friday to spend the morning with him.  We had a nice breakfast as Ric’s Country Kitchen across from the Grand Mosque (which hosts the worlds largest fiberglass dome by the way) and then went on to a supermarket with good asian produce for some Thai food fixin’s.

Science!

A little while ago, on a nice spring day, Crystal took Kai and Nora out to the desert outside the perimeter road to go a scientific expedition.  We purchased a digital microscope and finally got it working on Dad’s 64bit system so it was time to collect samples.  In addition to the raw thrill of science there was looking at bugs in the desert, running on the perimeter soccer field, and hopping brick to brick as they passed the mosque on the way home.

Looking at the specimens under the microscope was fun but it was surprisingly difficult to illuminate and focus on irregularly shaped objects.   I can see why people prepare slides for microscopes.