a salaam aleikum, We'll we're back in Dubai but this time to meet Andy (our son) for Christmas. His ship was in port there from the 24th through the 27th. It wasn't the "normal" Christmas you probably celebrated where you are but it was very special for us. We hadn't seen Andy for several years and when this opportunity came up we jumped on it. We did the 'Big Bus tour', Andy hadn't done it before. We got to see some other sights we hadn't gotten to b...

We have met an extraordinary man here named Redha. He is Kuwaiti, speaks perfect english and has a multitude of freinds. He went to college in Mich. Yesterday we had lunch at his home along with a woman from Georgia (the country, not the state) and works at the Georgian Embassy as a translator (speaks english, georgian, arabic, and russian), a German that works for the Kuwait navy, a welsh gentleman that works for the Kuwait Oil Co. After lunch we went to the m...

We hope everyone had a great fourth..we certainly did, in Dubai, UAE. A photo album is attached. Click on each pic for larger view and comments on each. For those affectionados of the Discovery channel, as we are, you may have seen three of the places on one of their shows, The building of Ski Dubai, Burg Dubai, and Burg Al Arab. Seeing them after watching the shows was awesome. We got some much needed rest (Right!) and had a few drinks (Kuwait is dry, dry, dr...

Greetings, Several have asked about Mr Scott. He is still at home with Rachel and is doing fine, NOW. She had to take him in for surgery the other day for kidney stones. He had several in his urethra causing a lot of pain and more in his bladder. After an overnight stay Rachel said that he came running to her to "get out of that place, and you could tell he was feeling much better". He is in good hands with her. We've reservations for anniversay dinne...

Greetings to all! We've been trying to get this out for some time but the internet is not so hot over here. We've gotten it typed only to realize that in the mean time we have lost connection. So John is typing this on word and then will copy it over (we hope!). I (John) went visiting some northern Army camps yesterday. Was that ever an experience? First offwhile going up a particular road we passed an area littered with old, rusting scraps of tanks and ambul...