Above you can almost see the small lemon trees in the top and on the right are lots of oregano plants.
Both pictures are taken from the roof. I want to make the roof into a sort of patio for the warm evenings under the stars, maybe with a barbeque also. That will come, it isn’t warm enough yet.
We went to the Wholesale Center which is also owned by the Sultan Center. I see the Wholesale Centre as like the Superstore of Kuwait.
Huge range of vegetables. A bit chaotic but this is the busiest day. We had some fatayers from the back, meat and cheese.
Marja thinks she may not want to see that chaos again. But they have way more selection, particularly vegetables than the other Sultan Centers. They have really nice lettuce locally, hydroponically grown.
Now it is time to go the pool again…
In answer to this question:
It was cold, we’ve added heaters. It seems we are at the end of the cold season and it is warming up.
The house is large and everyone is happy that way. Surya got a room with a small balcony that I didn’t know we have.
Let’s see.
Shopping can be lots of work. Navigation is a challenge as the map doesn’t show all the streets. It took some driving around until we found the mattress shops we were looking for.
We were looking for 90 x 200 cm spring mattresses for kids. That is the Ikea size — the standard is 100 x 200 cm. Then we found the American Mattress shop where the clerk spoke no english only to see that they were too expensive about 120 KD each. But a couple of shops down they had good ones that were Kuwait made for 42 KD each so we bought three for delivery on Sunday. We also checked out a couple of rug shops. Anything reasonable is synthetic, from Turkey, China, Iran and Belgium!
Then we continued the journey to near the sixth ring road and the 60 to look at furniture and rugs. The rugs are about 70 KD for 2 x 3 size. I wasn’t ready to buy though. Then we popped into Sears nearby. It looked not very posh and we didn’t buy anything. There is a lot of clothes. They have some Craftsman tools though.
Now I joined up everyone at the Hilton Club and I took the kids swimming. The weather wasn’t too nice but the pool was warm. The wind was howling with big waves on the beach. We had the pool to ourselves. Marja did the first workout at the gym.
I went in the morning to the airport to clear the shipment through customs. Six crates worth! I met the agent with Gulf Agency Company (GAC) there. The customs inspector looked randomly into the boxes and saw the desktop computer, a box of VHS casettes and box of CDs. I guess they figured the shipment was too large to be all personal goods so it needed, I think an extra stamp. I followed the GAC people around and that got done. Then the were able to ship it to our place.
All in all, the GAC people were very helpful and they then unpacked the crates and carried everything into the villa.
So now we have a room full of stuff that will be distributed to the different spots in the house.
