The Shopping Mall- The Avenues Mall

This is my wonderful husband about to start our wonderful day of shopping in the biggest mall I have ever been in. I put the road sign in to show you we were going to Kuwait City. The next picture is of Liberation Tower and so far that is as close as I have gotten. It is in downtown and we have not ventured that far yet. We are hoping that Michael will get a car so we can go see the sights of Kuwait City but alas it is still next week.










These pics are the ones I took as we were getting close to the entrance of the mall. Inside the mall was a wonderful aquarium with beautiful fish. I got a picture of Ash and Michael looking at the fish.







This picture is of a beautiful 2 story waterfall that is inside the mall. It is really pretty so I had to get Michael and Ash to stand in front of it. All in all it was a great day. We walked the whole mall almost and it is big. Bigger than anything in Hampton Roads by far and they are still adding onto it. So it is going to be huge when complete. This mall had a lot of neat water features and that is what Ash is standing in front of. This one is out front. The sign is Arabic for Chili's which is in the mall. This mall has everything the average American would like to eat. It had a Hardees, KFC, McDonald's, TGI Fridays, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Dunkin Donuts, Aunt Annies, Applebees, Johnny Rockets, and they are putting in a Macaroni Grille so that will be nice. All the foods of home.Love to all my family. Dad I hope you are home and feeling better and I love you and Miss you so much. Hello Barb hope all is well love to you and miss you much. till next time Bye Bye from Kuwait.

Sights on the way home from our Saturday Jaunt

These were just a few of the sights we saw on our way home from Shopping. The building to right was a bit odd looking as it had green trellis looking things on all of the windows plus there was a pink one that looked exactly the same. Well at least you could pick your building out in the dark. The next is of those blue and white striped water towers. They are so neat and come 6 to a cluster. The next picture is of a building that I guess they wanted everyone to know how many floors there were as the numbers are on the outside of the building. It is a very blue building and the numbers really stand out.

The picture of the sailboaty thing is on the side of the highway and just looked interesting.








The picture that looks like barren wasteland is just that. It does look like at one time there were houses and other things there but they bulldozed them all down. We do not know if it was done during the war when Kuwait got bombed or if they just decided to clear out an old neighborhood and start anew. I love the look of the mosques and all are very different. I love the architecture of each one. I have 3 different ones found throughout the city. The next three pics are of Ash and she is modeling one of her many new outfits she got today. Her Dad(opa) is very nice to her or she has him wrapped around her little finger. You decide which. Love to all and miss you all. it is 118 here today at 2.

What to do when it is just 2 HOT

Well we spent the day inside as it was just to hot. I ate my Krispy Kreme Donuts for breakfast and boy were they good. And do I not look cute in my new scarf that I got to protect my hair from the sun and sand. These are just some snippets of our day. Ash played dress up and made a video with her dad(Opa) as her videographer.(sp) Otherwise it was just to hot. Ash helped Michael with 3 loads of laundry which I could have done as one at home. So enjoy the pictures as it was just a lazy day around the villa Bowman. Love to my girls, dad, & Barb. Hope you all are good and talk to ya soon.

snippets of my Life

This is just a few snapshots of what goes on around here at the Villa Bowman. I caught 2 pics of sunrise the first has a flock of birds flying thru and the second one I took looks like the bird is standind on the sun.

This is a pic of Michael on his way to Greg's house to get picked up to go to work. He needed me to get him something and that is why he is pointing. The other pic of him is as he is walking away from me down the road to meet up with Greg and wait for their boss to pick them up. It takes them 45 to 60 minutes to get to the base from Egaila. Long drive lots of desert.

This is the newly built house across the street and the pile of trash keeps getting bigger as he throws stuff away. The front of the house is starting to look rather nice now that a lot of the trash has been taken to the side yard. That is below.









This is a feral cat that stops by across the street to go thru the trash. She must find food as she comes back day after day. Ash wants to adopt her and the answer to that was a resounding NO.
The pictures below and above are of Michaels laundry room and maids room. The laundry room is skinny so the appliances are behind each other. He has a nice front loading washing machine that would not cut it back home at the Bowman House. The dryer is about the same size. Good for a single person so with 3 of us now we are taxing the machine. The next picture is of the

maids bathroom which consists of the pot and a shower sprayer beside the pot. They have crown molding in every room including the bathroom. The white ceiling picture is of the bathrooms crown molding. The next is the space in the room in front of the bathroom and get a load of the view out that window. The next pic is a little alcove with a window that opens to the back of the house. It is a nice little room. The last 2 pictures are views from the rooftop balcony and it is so nice up there. so that is a little bit of what I see on a daily basis and I do hope you enjoy. At 11:40 our time it is already 114.8 on our back patio and that is in the shade. Love to my girls and kisses for my baby who I miss so much.

Another Day in Paradise

When Michael came home from work he surprised us and took us to Avenue Mall in Kuwait City.Ryan our favorite cab driver came and got us and off we went. So Ashleigh and I got out of the house. We spent 6 hours out and about and had fun. The blue and white things to the left are water towers. They are really neat and all over the place. Carrefour is a grocery store inside the mall so we did a little shopping. I like the Sultan Center better as they cater to westerners with a lot more US food. But it was nice to experience a different place. Then comes Krispy Kreme Donuts and I just had to have me some Hot Donuts. Nothing like a little taste of home YUM!!!! This mall was huge and different levels and they are still adding on. You could not get thru it in one day. We have to go back. I love me a mall. The picture below is night time in Kuwait. This was on the drive home.











What am I working on? Well I brought over some Quilts that just needed to put quilted or tied. So now I am doing this Laurel Burch Quilt I made. It has 30 blocks of her fabric and turned out really nice. I backed it with fleece so it would not be that heavy and really like the way it turned out. So I am sewing at least 4 blocks a day and hopefully will be done in 8 days. I am also reading the Book "Ghost Among Us" by James Van Praagh. Really good book. Another really good book I just finished is " The Shack" but can not remember the author. It will open your mind to the possibilities. I also finished a Linda Lael Miller book "Glory, Glory" in bed last night. Carla this is a really good book by her will let you read it when I get home. Love to my girls and to my heart Alyssa. Mema misses you so much and will be home in 6 Mondays.

A day in Kuwait

Sunrise this morning in Egalia.
I am going to try to the best of my ability tell you my day in Kuwait. I get up at 5 am with Michael and come out to the living/dining room and turn on my computer. I go on AOL to see if any of my girls are on so I can talk to them before they go to bed. We are having massive computer problems in Va. Bch. as the big computer decided to die the day I left. So the girls have been getting on where ever and when ever they can. So it is hit or miss if I get to talk to any of them. Then Michael gets ready for work and I read all of my e-mails, go to facebook, and then check my myspace page. I have watched no TV over here and I only miss it as I like it as background noise when I am quilting. But I have only missed my ghosthunters show on wednesday night. We get last season shows over here or maybe later.
Driving over here is really bad and that is just by what I see out of my window. People speed down the road out in front of Michaels building and do not worry about slow moving vehicles. They will honk there horn and pass even if traffic is coming the other way. There are no shoulders on these roads nor are there sidewalks. They just passed a law that you have to use hands free to talk on the phone but you still see them talking on there phones. They go 120km or faster with no problem. I have seen about 4 near collisions and then you hear all of the honking of horns and screeching of tires. They speed thru this neighborhood all the time. I just watch in amazement that more people are not killed but I guess the system works. This household does not have to worry about that as of yet as Michael does not have a drivers license which in turn means no car. To go anywhere in taxi is about $50 or more but in KD it does not sound that bad. A trip is anywhere from 5 to 6 KD each way. So going sightseeing is mostly out of the question. I really want to see Kuwait city and all of its history. Still a lot of bomb damage around from 1st Iraq war when Iraq decided to bomb here. Michael said the first place they hit was the base he works on and then I guess Kuwait City(KWC) with all the government offices. I would like to see Liberation Tower which is in KWC proper and the marina mall which they say is really pretty. But all of the malls seem to be very nice.
After my computer stuff I may go lay back down until Michael gets here or I work on some of my quilts I brought. He gets home usually after 3 and then we have a snack and talk about dinner. We had pizza tonight and it was really good. Then Michael and Ash go and do the Wii fit for awhile and then him and I sit and talk and then it is 8 here which is 1 pm in EST and the 2 of us go to bed. Ash stays up to talk to her mom and aunts. So that is a day in the life of me. Please everyone make a big wish that Michael will get his drivers license soon.

I am Daddys girl and proud of it

This is Barbara and she is a godsend. She has taken care of my dad since his stroke but has been with him even longer. She is my dads girlfriend and I do not know what would have happened to my dad without her. She takes the best care of him.




I found out today that my dad is back in the hospital and being so far away I feel useless. My dad is my hero because anyone who knows him knew the type-a person who was always in control and since his left brain stroke that is not his life. He does not speak all that well but I do not care I am just happy to hear his voice on the other end of the phone. We mostly have a yes and no conversation and I just call to tell him I love him so much. Being in Kuwait is hard as I knew before I left he was not feeling good and had lost 12 lbs.. He is a wonderful person and I love every minute I get to spend with even if it is just a snuggle in his big chair. Please everyone say a prayer that they will figure out what is hurting him. It is hard when the person sick can not verbalize that well.
Michael and I even bought him a web-cam for their computer so I could talk to him while I was over here but we have not gotten a chance to do that. I have been a daddy's girl all my life. I love you Daddy and please get better as I will be home in 6 Mondays and I promise you will be the first person I visit with when I get home. LOVE YOU ALWAYS & FOREVER Kimmi