Night life

Here is a shot of the water fountain in the Al Kout mall, the mall is two long buildings, with this in the middle.  One building has a grocery store in front and a fresh fruit, veggie and fish market in the back.  The other building has a movie theater, food court, and all the normal clothing stores that malls have, plus a few coffee and ice cream shops.  Behind the fountain, across the street to the left is the other mall, Al Manshar, which houses a Papa Johns and some other stores, beyond Papa Johns, i dont care too much.  Oh yea, they have these souvenir shops, I got a couple of chess sets there, and a coffee mug for my grandma.  They have all kinds of random crap there, wooden carvings, cheap knife and sword replicas, all kinds of stuff floating in glass cubes and balls, tea sets and who knows what else.  The shop is crazy crowded, i'll try to get a pic before i leave.

Whats the difference between a two lane road and a one lane road with street parking?  As soon as the parking lot is full, or a kuwaiti thinks it's full, or a kuwaiti doesn't feel like using the parking lot the right lane becomes street parking.   You know how in a mall parking garage there is often a patch of sidewalk in front of the mall entrance.  The other night while at the mall, it was so crowded a car pulled up on there to park.  If it wasn't for the mall security guards, they would have just parked on the corner, locking in the last two parking spots.  It's beyond ridiculous how selfish most drivers are here.  While in line, in the parking garage, on the 3rd story heading to the exit, a guy came behind us and barely squeezed between us and the parked cars.  There was no time to move over and block them since they came up so fast, a few cars ahead of us someone tried to block them, but they made it through.  I'm a fairly patient driver, but i've had more than one urge to chunk a tire iron at another car.

This is one of the strip malls near the whole sale store pictured below.   It would take a very long time to count how many mini stores like these are located around Kuwait.

I doubt i would drink this bud even if there was alcohol in it.  I'm not a snob, but if i limit what i drink, i'll drink less and less often, its a nice perk to being picky.

I dont have a clue what you would put vine leaves in.

  This is the whole sale center i sometime shop at.  Not sure how much cheaper it is than the regular place i shop at, but its got a few different items.  I got a mini pineapple there last week to cook with a pack of baby back ribs.  Three hours of cooking and they weren't that tender, but they tasted pretty good.  Pineapple, bbq sauce, garlic, brown sugar and a few other ingredients made a pretty good marinade.

 Here is a shot from the second story in the whole sale center.







I have a couple of more pics, but i apparently forgot to load them while at my place yesterday.  New post tomorrow, roof shots from near my place, and pictures of the Hamberg family