Today is Wed March 11th. It is 3:10pm here, and I am eating a homemade poutine, gravy courtesy of Mere! I just spoke to my mom an hour ago, when it was 7am in Toronto, and she cut the conversation short because she had to go to the washroom. lol. ah, my mom. Well, so today i got up early! Duncan came and woke me up as promised at 8:40am, and then I slept in till about 9:20am. I was supposed to spend the afternoon with mere's friend Tarek yesterday, but he had to work, so we rescheduled for this morning. So tarek showed up at the apartment just before 10am, and off we went to get brunch. apparently there aren't a lot of good breakfast places here, so we went to one of 2 that tarek knew of, a lebanese restaurant in the Sooq. the Sooq Waqif.
Last night actually, we went to a restaurant in the Sooq Waqif, with Mere, Duncan and Duncan's parents, it was a late birthday dinner for Caroline (duncan's mom). It was really cool there. they had actually built it 2 yrs ago, but they made it look old, so that you still have the Sooq charm (Sooq is Market, from my understanding...again correct me if i'm wrong!) But it was a cute restaurant, i say cute because of the decor, but in fact, it was pretty big! It was good times, i have more pics up on facebook. Ok, so back to today. We went to the lebanese restaurant in the Sooq, and it was quite different to see it during the day. it was still hard to find parking, but it wasn't as busy as last night was. last night it was like a street party like on st laurent in the summer in montreal. it was crazy. it was more relaxed during the day, also cuz most would be working. i had eggs and beef bacon. man ever since i came here i have been wanting bacon...i think more so because you can't have it here. one of those forbidden desires! (christina-eat my bacon that's in the fridge plz!)
It was really cloudy this morning, so we went to eat more so to gauge the weather. when we finished, it was still cloudy, but we went anyway. so there aren't many beaches here, the good ones are 45min to an hour away (some further), and most of them u need an suv or an atv to get there. so we didn't really have a lot of time since tarek needed to get to work for 2pm. so we went to a "beach" by the pearl. in order to get there tho, u have to go off-road a bit. meaning, u have to drive on the sand and rocks. so we got there, it was really small, the water was like an in-land cove of sorts, not right at the sea, and the sand was red, which was cool, but really, it was as big as the pond in high park. so we scratched that idea and went to a beach near the intercontinental, which is the pic above.
the water was cooold!! but it was ok once you're in it. oh, and i scrached up my legs, foot, ad hand!! i'm the worst at getting cuts and bruises!! heehee...i have to put up at pic of what my leg looks like...
but when we got out of the water, it was actually pretty warm, so we just hung out, sitting on concrete blocks that they have there to prevent cars from driving in. the sand was very rocky, so not comfy to sit on! 
(so ya, that's my leg, pretty gross huh? heehee....)
So, we then had some time to kill b4 tarek had to go back to work, so we went to the restaurant that i've driven past probably every day and never went. when robert and i went for the walk the other day, we were supposed to walk the restaurant but turned around just before. i've heard great things about it, and it's one of the "restaurants of the world" (not sure if that's the correct saying). Anyway, i thought we'd go over there and have a coffee...it was really pretty sitting by the water, and when we got the menu, it said minimum 75riyals per person....for coffee?? eepers...so we were gonna jet, but they said it was ok. i suppose when it's busy, this is how they ensure they make there money if ppl are hogging the tables. they also had an eating area above the restaurant, on the roof if you will. it was really nice!
(this is us sitting at the restaurant. we got the table closest to the water....)
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