Category: Traveling
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Adventures of a different sort
Our typical sort This last Saturday we set out on our latest adventure. Our friends the Andersons, Palmers and Queros joined us on a dhow cruise along the northeast coast of Oman, Musandam. A dhow is a “A lateen-rigged ship with one or two masts, used in the Indian Ocean” though ours was powered by motor not…
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Mortality and Wadi Adventure Race 3
I’ve just spent several hours piecing together a short video of the race i participated in on the weekend. The hardest part… picking an appropriate sound track. In the end I think the choice was appropriate but feel free to judge me. Having spent all that time on the movie I really don’t feel like…
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Return to Oman
I love Oman. What a beautiful country both for its geography and its people. In many ways it feels like you are stepping back in time as you cross the border from the UAE to Oman. Muscat I have heard described as the anti-Dubai. Though a city of several hundred thousand no skyscrapers mark the…
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Wadi Shawka
I mentioned in my last post that we spent some time recently at Wadi Shawka. I’m not sure exactly how to spell it because I’ve seen it spelled multiple ways including several different variations on signs in the village by that name you pass through to get into the Wadi. The best Wadis all seem to…
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Earlier in the week I signed myself and the kids up to participate in a trip to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque for February 16th. We were sent an itinerary, dress code and instructed to be promptly at the meeting place between 8:30 am and 9:00 am to be on the bus. 9:00 am came and…
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A first night apart
Yesterday after church about 25 men and a few young men rode off into the desert for a guys night of desert camping. What happens when you send a bunch of men into the wilderness who are eager to recapture some of their youth and a few boys eager to be men? Well, potentially a…
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Desert Dwelling
It is always fun to see camels meandering along the road. This may be because they are still so foreign looking to us. Seeing a moose or bear in Canada was always novel (just because the experience is relatively rare) but a horse or cow is simply part of the landscape. Camels are ultimately a…
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Staycation
I’m not sure when my last post was… likely nearly a month ago. This is a sure sign of the normality life has taken on here. I believe we are all doing very well. Kirsten had a real bout of serious homesickness last Friday but she seems to have rallied very well. There are some…
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American University of Sharjah Parks
Okay there are lots of parks on campus. A few days ago I went around to some of the parks around the University and took pictures. I got lots! We play on all of them. Some have monkey bars and big slides. There are some that have tunnels. My favourite park is the K block. …
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Family Economy
So back in mid-November, James and I attended a fireside on Parenting. The guest speakers were staying next door with our neighbours (who happen to be the Stake President and his wife). I ran into them on campus while walking home from lunch with James. “Hello, we’re the Eyres we’ve heard so much about you.”…
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