Out and about

Wadi Bani Khalid

On Friday we drove about 2 hours to get to Wadi Bani Khalid. A wadi is a river. Not all Wadis flow and some dry up but apparently the water flows underground???? And then when the rains come (around May) they fill up again.

Well, to swimWadi Bani Khalid flows year round and people go there to swim. We arrived and it truly looked like an Oasis. We had a delicious lunch with our colleagues and then swimming. Jurie and I looked for the deeper area to swim but our colleague took us first to a shallow area. We saw fishies swimming around and we splish splashed. When we said we wanted to go to the deeper area we were asked if we could swim because the area we wanted to go to was 10ft deep. We assured our colleagues that we could swim and off Jurie and I trekked on our own. We didn't swim at the deep area because while we splish, splashed in the shallow area some other brave souls went swimming there.

I didn't feel comfortable swimming there because I noticed that everyone swimming were males. I know I'm not usually the type to shy away from stuff like that but here I get a weird vibe and so we walked back to our picnic site. We sat around until sunset and then went off home. We stopped for some tea with cinnamon in it, yum yum!

Movies in Muscat

On Saturday, we went to the movies. We both really wanted to see Logan. We set off to Muscat early in the morning, made it in record time and decided to take a quick walk around the park for Pokemon hunting. The cinema is about 6 minutes away from the park. We got to the shopping centre, got our tickets and looked around at the many choices of snacks. You can get Pepsi, Fanta and Mountain Dew as slushies!!!! Also, we could choose our flavour of popcorn, salt, caramel or chilli cheese and you can even order nachos. Going to the movies in Muscat is an expensive affair but still, the seats were super comfortable and I enjoyed the movie, Jurie not so much.  We then went shopping afterwards and finally stopped off at the park on the way home.

All in all, the weekend was quite a good one!