My first night in town involved Sami giving me a tour of the country/city. We drove all over and even went up in the Kuwait towers at night as shown below.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the "barbaric Iraqi invaders" destroyed the Kuwait towers. Photos of the destruction with accompanying captions were on display in the towers as shown below.
Hussam picked me up the next day and we went to see the fish market. Hussam negotiated my way on a fishing boat while it was in harbor. Below is a photo I took with the crew.
After visiting the boats, we went into the fish market where hundreds of baskets of shrimp were for sale. Apparently we were there right at prime time shrimping season.
Our next stop was the Arabian Gulf (or Persian Gulf as we know it in American). I went down and put my hand in the water thus keeping with my principal of touching every major body of water I've been to.
Sami and his wife have two kids named Malek (age 8) and Leanne (age 7). They both reminded me of my cousins. We played table tennis and Malek introduced me to the Nintendo Wii. Man, I loved it. I proceeded to get the high scores in Home Run Derby and in Golf Chipping. I played it when everyone went to sleep. Below Malek is showing me how to bowl and Leann is doing something, I'm not too sure.
Hussam took me around town while Sami was at work. Hussam works for Sami but his workload was light so Sami had him drive me around town. Hussam sometimes drove like a maniac and his car's AC needed some work. It broke down twice when I was there. Once it broke down on a day that was 54 Celsius (129.2 Fahrenheit). That sucked!! Below is a photo of Hussam dropping me off at the airport.
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