Part 17 "My Hometown Series:The Flood in Jeddah" by Abdul Aziz Al-Sharani

The Thing in the Water Tank!!!

The Thing in the Water Tank!!!

What do you think this is?

Curious?

Ok. You should be even more curious now.

I'll give you a hint. We pulled it out of my underground water tank several months ago. What would you guess it is?

Well, if you guessed it's a system of tree roots you would be right. It was suspended in our underground water tank. It was just hanging by that large arm like root shown above.

Update:
Yesterday, 1/15/10 we were having water problems, so I opened the lid to the underground tank. To my surprise I found not one but two large roots protruding from the concrete wall. Yes, there was another system of roots dangling. Not as large as the one above but it was and is still there.

Part 16 "My Hometown Series: Al-Ahsa" by Al-Qasem Al-Mosa

Can-am roadsters and four-wheelers on Tahliyah St.

Tahliyah is one of the more popular hang out spots. For a short period there was a West Coast Customs on this street. Here is an aerial view at: http://wikimapia.org/2650625/Tahlia-St-King-Fahd-Road-crossection

Lots of chic and elitist shops are located here. For example:

Ok! Back to the Can-am photos.
The Spyder, a three-wheeled roadster

Tamimis / Safeway grocery store

Tamimi / Safeway market is probably the most popular grocery store amongst the westerners (non scientific findings). They airship lots of products, so one has access to many "comfort foods". Yesterday, I even saw Whatchamacallits, boy that took me back a few years.


Most of the pics include the price at the bottom of the photo. The prices are in Saudi riyals and can be converted to dollars by dividing by 3.75 and the answer is the amount in dollars. For example one box of imp0rted cereal is about 22 sar. So we take the 22 /3.75 = $5.87. Quite expensive, so you pay for that convenience and access.


International Products
See the turkeys at the bottom?
Cranberry sauce? What season are they referring to?
WOW! This takes me back.




What's a good ol' American breakfast without hash browns?

Yummy!!!
Even more yummy!!!

Yummiest!!!

Here's a video of the bakery section at one of the Tamimi / Safeway market



http://wikimapia.org/943029/Tamimi-Markets
http://www.al-tamimi.com/co_smarket.html

Switching out the "gas"

This is video of the gas guy replacing the cylinders. In general, one cylinder may last my family about 2 to 3 months. It only costs 15 Saudi riyals to replace. There are shops like this one spread throughout the city and this one carries gas cylinders, bottled water (5 gallons) and bottled soda (the old school ones in glass bottles with the metal tops).
Oops! Video begins upside.