We get on a boat!
The Ministry of Education declared that we had to take November 5th off in observance of the Islamic New Year, so a group of us decided to rent a yacht to celebrate! A lot of other people must have had the same idea, so we had to drive about an hour south of the city to a marina in Al Khiran so we could meet up with our boat. We sailed out to an island called Om al Namal (the mother of the ant) and tooled around on the lovely waters of the Arabian Gulf.
Here are a few photographic highlights.
Vicariously yours,
The Ministry of Education declared that we had to take November 5th off in observance of the Islamic New Year, so a group of us decided to rent a yacht to celebrate! A lot of other people must have had the same idea, so we had to drive about an hour south of the city to a marina in Al Khiran so we could meet up with our boat. We sailed out to an island called Om al Namal (the mother of the ant) and tooled around on the lovely waters of the Arabian Gulf.
Here are a few photographic highlights.
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| We towed our little boat behind us. There wasn't a dock or anything at the island, so one of the boat pilots had to give us a ride to shore. |
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| We commented on how crazy it is that early settlers headed out in hand-powered boats with nothing but this view in front of them with no knowledge that there were islands out there. Crazy. |
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| We took a little time for a dip. |
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| ...and of course had to take a few high dives off the roof of the boat. |
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| Hi, Mister! The water was so nice and blue! |
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| If you didn't know better, you'd think we were in the Caribbean! |
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| Our vessel for the day. |
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| The Arabian sunset brought the day to a lovely end. |
Vicariously yours,
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