Hello again from kobar , I realize it has been a long time since our last update as it takes a long time to do this with our lovely internet which we are still constantly struggling with . But we have figured out if we stream through our router from home and the computer on airplay we can usually get an entire episode off netflix before it stops .Can you tell I really miss my Tv shows. But at least we figured out something .
Since last time I have made some new friends , most of which are from austraila and I have to get a translator to understand some of the words that they use !! Love it , and we have found Tam tams cookies and they were epic. One thing I have noticed here is that the stores have so much imported we can truly have food from all over the world , so if it says imported from USA try to avoid it and get something new. Why not right , the food here is really tasty ,not a lot of salad but i'll find to live:)
We did finally get a drivers licence and bank account !!! hurray who knew those tiny things would be such a big deal! We have money in Canada perfect go to the bank tell our saudi account we are going to wire money to you …..well first sign and scan these documents and send them to canda , easy right ? nope apparently people here don’t/can’t fax to Canada ? all right after days of back and forth with the 9 hour time difference Brandt got a phone call to finalize thing in Canada but with no printer or scanner or Internet he had to write things out in hand , take a picture on his phone and send it to them !then after all is said and done they say perfect that will take up to 3 weeks~ umm all righty , it did arrive in about 4 days but man that was stress full . Then Brandt went car shopping and that is a whole other story that he will have to insert….see Brandt’s guide to buying a car in Saudi******
Like anyone we are having our ups and downs.Kayden is doing better in school and we are forming some sort of routein which is hard in any world cause there is never enough time to do all the things you need to get done. But I am crossing things off the “to do “list Such as take a cab , So me and One of my new “peeps” went to a store down the way from us and it was like Ligudation world meets winners , so it took some hunting but it was great! we took a cab with no men and the cab even had seat belts when in Saudi that is an upgrade:) But it was fun and events full . I have also Gone out with a Driver and a friend cause i’m not ready to that one alone just yet:) but it was great got out one afternoon while that older kids were at school and was back by the time they got off the buss , And i even found frozen blueberries which was the high light of my day , I had been looking since we got here , i ended up paying like 5$ for 2 cups but who cares , small victory!
So we have our re-entry visa’s and we have a long weekend here so we ventured out to the “get away” place over here which is Bahrian it’s just a quick drive over the cosway bridge which about 2 km long 2 lanes on each side , with a speed guide line of 80 but everyone was going close to 120 , it was wild . Were we so optimistic that we were going on an adventure and see this part of the wold , but then we passed a fatal accident were we saw 5 men physically lift a car off a person. Life changing it was truly sad. Then we got the security /Customs and there were 7 separate ones , about 3 seconds drive apart from each other , fun . Then once we got to the Island we were in search of this special restaurant where they serve…BACON! Now i know you are thinking big deal. but in Saudi there is no bacon or pork of any sorts , so this Bacon was the first pork product we have eaten in 5 weeks!! After an hour of searching we found it , and it was a hole in the wall but the Bacon was epic!!
but we have learned one thing is our outings recently ……..we don not like #Adventures!!! at first we were all about the adventure and going to try to travel the places around us while we are over here but since a every day seems to be an adventure we are going to travel to places we know we love!!!
So instead going to see Hong kong and Tokyo , we are going on a disney cruise and Disney in Orlando . I know you are all thinking really!! but when everyday is so very frustrating and Different we have to know that we are going some place we know and love so we can relax ! we have deffinaly learned that about our self …..Tracey’s don’t really like change but we can make to most of a lot of difficult situations:) We are good with it
One of the joys of living in a Hotel for lack of a better term:) The Cart for bringing in the groceries
Take out thursday is our favourite night , Kayden loves this food! and the Nan bread is out of this world.
This is our outting to Bahrain @ 7am it was truly beautiful
Even Kayden thought it was picture worthy ! It was so cute , we were driven along and just herd the camera shooting away
This is the Bacon place , can you spot it ? It was called Rik's kountry Kitchen
Lost paradise Water park , so Cool it was literally in the middle of NO where , but the park was amazing !!We spent hours there there were 10 plus water slide , lazy river and a huge play ground for water play . See the fence and on the other side is nothing
Kids splash area , it was the biggest one we have ever seen
lol , this was on the lazy River , had to post it
Sunset drive on the way home on the cosway , after 2 hours getting through customs .It was beautiful
My next goal is to figure out how to do some shipping to here as my Lulelmon order was cancelled and i was truly sad:( so i have to get creative and try again .And our boxes were supped so leave canada on the 18 so my Crafting supplies maybe here some day soon:) Inshallah....as they say it here...which means "If Allah wills it" but in my translation means.....maybe , hopefully , we will see
Till next time
#Adventure ??
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