Today is just a mishmash of topics and pictures. Don and I were walking around in the nearest mall just to get some exercise last week (sans sand, mosquitos and humidity!) and saw this bed? in a store window. Don took a picture because he thought it would be interesting. We got a lot of looks as we walked through the mall. They aren't used to seeing people use the mall for just walking. None of the malls here that we have visited are as big as the ones back home, so we kept seeing a lot of the same people as we made multiple trips around the mall circumference.
Now, on to the lovely picture at the right. We have to have residence cards in order to live here. Don needed his residence card in order to get a driver's license. This is a picture of the "DMV" here in Oman that he took while waiting the requisite 3 hours to get it. Do you think it's a world-wide conspiracy for all DMV's to have blue plastic chairs, lots of windows to help citizens, but only a small fraction of those same windows have actual bodies there to wait on the many customers? And the body language--I've seen this same scene many times in the states. The clothing may change, but the people don't! In case you can't tell, the sign in red at he upper right corner is displaying the number of the current patron. Bureaucratic minds across the world are the same!Today, while Sunday, is our second day of the work week. Thursday and Friday is our weekend. I finally got to drive this weekend. I drove home from a mall and then to church on Friday. I was either too slow or too fast for Don (no pleasing him!), but I didn't want to hit or be hit by any other drivers. Don was very nervous as I navigated the roundabouts as well, but I made it through just fine! Below is a picture, posted on the wall at the DMV, of all the different road signs used here in Oman. Again, bureaucrats of the world are united!
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