Car shopping, housing and a hummer.

The outside of the kitchen store with pots galore !

Check out the size of those turkey fryer pots or are they camel fryers! Huge and the - baskets take you pick.

Check out the "breast" shaped serving dishes - This is a private Morrow joke which I pulled on my Mom. Love you Mom - my nipples are so hard I can cut glass!

A dhow - check out how old this thing is - all hand built.

The one it the forefront has been emptied but the one in the back is awaiting to unload. Such a dichotomy - old world in front - modern skyscrapers in the background.

Their cargo - actually some nice pieces in there - except for the hideous deer statues on the right- and I do mean hideous!

And to fill up the pots - right next door is the plants and landscaping market - How convenient,

Or should I say how Emotional!

Hi All

Sunday 9p

Well today was a good day at work. FINALLY got Christine's tickets in hand. Plus talked to housing director - yes another Mohammad - and learned that the place Hanie and I want to move to may work out better than we thought as the hospital has already secured housing there for some of the doctors- well they have about 11 units "open" - so Hanie and I are making a full court press to get in on that deal as it will be cheaper with no automatic increase next year ( yes landlords are limited by law not to raise their rent by no more than 5% each year - so the standard IS to raise rents each year - even when the market won't bear it - hey go figure) We are working the deal and I will have more later.

Well yesterday - Saturday after breakfast and some time at the pool grooving to tunes on my iPod, I headed out to look for a car - UGH not my most favorite past time.

Oh but let me back up to 2 a.m. Sleeping soundly and suddenly this loud MMMMMMMM sound - I snap awake and listen to this MMMMMM sound waver in tone and intensity. It stops after 10 seconds THEN MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM get the picture?

Ok I get up now and it's coming from my bathroom ceiling - it's the sound of a pipe with water flowing thru a semi closed valve - we've all heard the sound. MMMMMMI call the front desk from the phone right by the toilet - how convenient - I'm talking to them and I'm holding the phone to the ceiling - and they are sending maintenance up.

OK throw on shirt and shorts. 2 m in later maintenance is at the door. He comes in and I escort him to the bedroom and bathroom MMMMMMM he tries the controls on the AC - nope ( I already tried that) He leaves and comes back with a ladder , pops the ceiling in the bathroom and feels around on all the pipes MMMMMMMmmmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmMMMMM Ah he finds the right pipe BUT discovers the problem is in 1202 - I'm 1203 - So now he calls the front desk and they talk - then they ask to talk to me - They want to move me - not for the night but kit and kaboodle - to another room - OH NO I say - wake them in 1202 and get it fixed - Oh no - we can't do that they are sleeping - WHAT??!! WANNA BET I'll call them - Oh no don't do that Ok we will move you only for the night so you can sleep - ok where to ? room 1302 - Don't you get it 1302 is right above 1202 do you THINK the sound may be transmitting up there too. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Deep breath - Ok now we have 3 maintenance guys out in the hall - they have woken up the 1202 people - nice couple from Sweden in their early 70's - and yes she is a blond and she is hot. (maybe I should check out Sweden for the next expat job if 70 yr olds look this good) yet I digress - so I hear him saying he's not going to move either - then the concierge comes in with my new room key for the night - down on the 2nd floor He apologizes for the trouble and hands me the the card key - THE INSTANT he hands me the key - The MMMMM stops - I gleefully exclaim the MMMM has stopped and since he just arrived, he hasn't heard the MMMMMM - so I take him into the bathroom and exclaim - No MMMMMM- remember this is all speaking stilted English with a crew of Burmese/Thai and Filipinos - How do you translate "No MMMMM" into English ?

Ok so back to bed - but I was able to relate the story to Christine on Skype and she she ends our talk with MMMMMMMMM to kid me - and I reply well that's a first - A Hummer over the Internet ! hahahaha

Ok back to the car story - I find a few cars and get some info and since I didn't need to by a car that day I go on my way. So I'm in the neighbor hood of the Fish Market - So I start to hoof it over there and on the way I come across the store with all the kitchen stuff - see photo and then to a market with pots and plants then the wharf where you see the dhow's - very interesting. Well made it to the fish market got some sea bass and shrimp huge shrimp and had them cleaned was on my way. Ended my day with some wonderful seafood pasta.

Hope all enjoyed the 50 -1 odds winner at the Derby - wish I could have been there.

Love to all

Scott