Winter In The Desert

Well, winter has finally come to this area of the world.  However, winter here is like a nice spring day at home.  The wind has a little chill and I have to wear a sweater in the mornings and evenings.  Friday was the first day I put on a pair of jeans while living here.  I am thinking about wearing slacks to school tomorrow with socks!  Yikes.  Winter time is quite lovely, but it feels to cold to enjoy the pool and sea.  Maybe a few degrees warmer would be nice. Here are a few things we are up to this month:

 We each got our jerseys for the Red Sea Cyclists.  Now I need to get my butt on the bike!  They mountain bike out of the bubble Friday mornings at 5 a.m.  Our bikes just arrived, so we are hoping to ride the desert mountains in January.

 

 The Recreation Center set up a Christmas evening for the families that celebrate Christmas. 

 

 Notice that the reindeer are hooked to the wrong side of the sleigh!

 Happy!

 

 The educators were invited to an Arabian Nights formal dinner.  It was great fun eating under the stars in Saudi fashion. This is my friend Dania from the Dominican Republic.  We both turn 40 in April, so you will be seeing more pictures of us together as we celebrate in style.

 With Rebecca, Ngiare and Dania. 

 

This was are dining area. 

 My little ninja helped me make snowball cookies. 

 

 

The following pictures are from a bike ride we took a few days ago.  The humidity is finally low enough for me to snap some good pictures without having the lens fog up.  Here are some of the sights we can see each day. 

 

 We rode our bikes to the Yacht club, which was hosting several activities.  A few of the activities focused on having the kids contribute to art that will be displayed around the community.

 This sculpture was so much fun!  All you had to do was choose a color and dump over the top.  Pretty creative!

 

 On this day they were having a golf challenge.  If you could hit the golf ball into a raft you would be entered in a drawing for a year's membership.  Bryan was so close!

 The Mosque is very beautiful. 

 

 

As you can see. life in winter is super stressful here. :)  We do live in a country that does not honor any other religion, but we have found ways to make it festive here in our area of the world.  We leave for Germany in 5 days to celebrate the holidays.  We are extremely excited to see the Christmas markets and feel some freezing cold weather!  I will blog once we get there.  Take care!