Not Much Going On...

But I'm trying to stay on top of posting.  When things are slow, it makes it harder to get on here and post anything.  We aren't doing anything really exciting but we are making friends and getting out a bit.  About every other week the local employee association at the consulate puts on a party evening last day of the work week.  This past week was "Steak Night".  Medium done steak, real mashed potatoes and veggies with a garlic parmesan cheese topping; really good stuff.  Then after the dinner we went to the after party at the Marine's House.  We brought along some friends I met about a month ago, a few pilots that fly on contract bringing Hajj's (pilgrims) to visit Mecca.  There was two Americans and one Aussie that joined us for the evening.  This was the first time two of them had a chance to interact with Americans at the consulate, and drink.  Needless to say everyone had a great time.  As most of you know, pork products are illegal here so needless to say like alcohol the only way we can get it is through the Consulate commissary.   So yesterday we invited a couple of the pilots over for a ham dinner.  They were in heaven, ham, potatoes, green beans and beer.  It's nice to be able to help bring a little American culture to those here working far from home.

Still working on lining up SCUBA lessons, looking at the end of the month.  We are going out on a dive/scuba boat during the upcoming holiday.  From what I hear it's an all day thing and great for diving and snorkeling.  The boat anchors near the reef which is about 3' deep at some parts then drops off so the divers have their place to go too.  So I'll hopefully get some good pictures, it will be nice to get off shore and out into the open waters.

Well gonna run,
Ciao!