Sunday, August 16, 2009

Just a Bit of Fun

We had all had a bit of a hard night on the town (believe it or not)  May as well have been drinking paint stripper I am sure.
So here we are at Fudruckers (hamburgers) getting good ole greasy food.





Teri loves this scarf look

Teri and Jo

Maria and Marion

Teri and I - great for a bad hair day!!

Jo and yes its Marion under there.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Supermarket Shopping and Fancy Dresses


Went to check out another mall today and thankfully the shops were closed so I did not spend any money.  They are closed every day from 1300-1600 for prayer as well as the two other night time prayers for about 45 minutes each time - so one must carefully plan shopping trips. You are allowed to stay inside the supermarket during prayer - they just turn off the lights and lock you in.  All the other shops you have to wait outside until they open again.

The supermarket was something quite amazing - a bit sad to get excited over a supermarket, the americans tell me its like a Wall-Mart.  I have never seen so much of everything in one place.  Each isle is full of just one type of food and so much of it.  We must have spent a good two hours looking around.


Tuna of any kind

Pasta and this is just one side of the isle

Toothpaste - you can see the price tag 3.75 Riyals which is about $1AUD


So many toothbrushes

Censorship of woman

Fancy shoes 
(if you click on the images they become bigger and you can see more detail)

Window display

This one is quite nice



Not bad

There is apparently a souq called the Princess Souq - its where the princesses take all their dresses that they no longer want - so I imagine that this is what they would look like.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Magazine Censorship

I bought the Hello Magazine today and found it had been censored!!!!  But only some pages - obviously someone has a quick flick through the magazine and then chooses a few pictures to sticker!!

But this is a vast improvement from when I was here in 2002 - back then you could not even buy these type of magazines so things are getting better slowly.  And at least all of the pages are intact some magazines they just rip the pages out - maybe thats when they run out of stickers.
Wonder if there are many RSI cases in the censorship industry!!!!


To censor or not to censor!!






This page slipped through the censors!





Looks like they used the last sticker.....