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| The beautiful beach |
Bandar Khairan Hike
One recent Sunday, the girls and I headed a little farther out of town to hike around Bandar Khairan (or Bandar Khiran or various other spellings or BK as I will now refer to it) to see where the paths took us. We knew we would get to a beach, but we really had no idea what we would find. What did we find? A beautiful, secluded, unpolluted beach.
Riyam Hike Take 2
My in-laws are in town, and we thought a great hike to take them on would be the Riyam Hike. Let's just say that if you do this one in the winter and/or in the afternoon, your experience will be much more enjoyable than our first, way too hot experience. In fact, we went from it being my worst idea ever hike to a "so much fun" hike.
This time, we were hiking in February rather than September or October. The high for the day was only expected to be 74F. And this time, we didn't head out until 1-1:30pm. We were in the shade of the mountains for much of the walk. It even got a bit chilly if we rested too long.
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| All smiling faces overlooking the large Frankincense burner. |
Throwback Thursday: Summer with Grandma and Pa
As mentioned before, there were a few years where I would get to spend a week with my Grandma and Pa all by myself. I would then go back for another week later in the summer to spend a week there with my sister and my two older cousins. When my younger cousins were old enough, we all went together for what was then named "Camp Cousin Huggin'."
Cheesy names aside, it was really a lot of fun. The first year, my Grandma had shirts made for all of us. I'm pretty sure my older male cousin was mortified. My aunt even went around and took pictures of us all together. One of these pictures still sits in my room as a fond memory of the past.
At Grandma's house, we would play cards, ping pong, and billiards. We would sleep in the garage apartments to feel older. We would play soccer in the front yard or at the local school. We would walk to Sonic to get slushes. We would check out movies from the (I kid you not) local bait, ammo, and movie store. It was 5 movies for $5 for 5 days. We checked out a lot of movies. We would go to the lake to swim and ride jet skis. We would go to the farm for hay rides, fishing, s'mores, and feeding the cows. We would swim. We would do egg hunts with a prize egg with money inside. We would laugh A LOT. We would walk to or from church or Pizza Hut. There was even the time we were practically kicked out of Pizza Hut for making too much noise. I still blame Pa who taught us how to make loud whistle noises with our straws. We would check out where Pa worked and play around in his antique cars. To this day, I'm still shocked that I didn't know back then that he had a pilot's license and plane. Why did we never go see that?
Cheesy names aside, it was really a lot of fun. The first year, my Grandma had shirts made for all of us. I'm pretty sure my older male cousin was mortified. My aunt even went around and took pictures of us all together. One of these pictures still sits in my room as a fond memory of the past.
At Grandma's house, we would play cards, ping pong, and billiards. We would sleep in the garage apartments to feel older. We would play soccer in the front yard or at the local school. We would walk to Sonic to get slushes. We would check out movies from the (I kid you not) local bait, ammo, and movie store. It was 5 movies for $5 for 5 days. We checked out a lot of movies. We would go to the lake to swim and ride jet skis. We would go to the farm for hay rides, fishing, s'mores, and feeding the cows. We would swim. We would do egg hunts with a prize egg with money inside. We would laugh A LOT. We would walk to or from church or Pizza Hut. There was even the time we were practically kicked out of Pizza Hut for making too much noise. I still blame Pa who taught us how to make loud whistle noises with our straws. We would check out where Pa worked and play around in his antique cars. To this day, I'm still shocked that I didn't know back then that he had a pilot's license and plane. Why did we never go see that?
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