Al Qurain Martyrs Musuem

Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum

This is the first thing you see as you drive into the area. It takes your breathe away.

This is the Iraqi tank that did the damage.

Everything I guess is the way it was left that day. All the houses around have been rebuilt like most of Kuwait but this is a monument to the young Kuwaiti's who fought and died for freedom from Iraq.

The white van that you see in the photo above is the one the Iraqi's arrived in. They knocked on the front door and when they did not get a response they opened fire.

Al-Qurain House: This house of martyrs was the site of a fierce and protracted battle between Iraqi troops with tanks and a group of ill-equipped Kuwaiti freedom fighters, many of whom died just hours before the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. This came from The American Academy website Living in Kuwait.
The Museum consists of three houses located in residential area in Kuwait called "Al-Qurain", many Kuwaiti men of the Kuwaiti resistance group of "Messila" where killed by the Iraqi army on 25th of February 1991 (only one day before the liberation of Kuwait on 26th of February 1991), one of the houses was attacked intensively while the other two houses weren't really effected compared to the first house. I took this 2nd paragraph from another blog as it was the best description of the Museum. It came from Peace.RadiantGuy.com.

I had read about this house and just had to see it. To think these guys knowing they were out manned and armed fought off the Iraqis until they could fight no more and were all killed. The houses are an eerie sight to behold. To see the big tank that shot rounds into this house and to imagine the horror on those mens minds but they were fighting for there homes and land. Iraq did a lot of damage to this country and the people have come back stronger than ever and this will never happen to them again.

The Scientific Center, Kuwait

Ashleigh doing a broadcast from inside the Scientific Center.
Michael & I

Michael & I with the skyline of Kuwait in the background

The 2 photos above and the one below I took for Krista. A spaceship landed in Kuwait and all these little horses got off.

The Dhow Harbour is situated right behind the Scientific Complex. Entry is free and anyone can just stroll all the way right up to this harbour to come on-board the 'Fateh el Kheir'. The Fateh el Kheir, which means Bringer of Good Fortune, is the last surviving wooden dhow from the pre-oil days. These lovely wooden ships were used for pearl divers who risked their lives trying to obtain the best quality pearls from the Arabian Gulf. Before the discovery of oil, this was one of the main trade activities in Kuwait. The dhow ship is lovely to see, but you must walk all the way around the Scientific complex to catch sight of it - mind you don't miss it. This explains the 2 above pictures and the one below.

Ash & Her dad

Michael & I taken by Ash.

This is a sand cat. She was very pretty.

Ashleigh not co-operating

Michael

This is a Jerboa. It looks like a gerbil.

Owls

Love this cat especially the tufts of hair on the ears.

Michael walking thru the exhibits.

tightly coiled Boa.

A sleeping crocodile.

2 pretty fish one above one below

An Eel who wanted to fight.

NEMO

Some really cute seahorses.

A Jellyfish

A colorful bunch of fish

A flying turtle

A ray swimming thru the water.

A pretty red and blue fish.

2 photos of me taken by Michael

The big Shark at the entrance to the IMAX theater.

The entrance to the Museum.

Michael goofing off.

The sign telling you you have arrived.
The temp today was a balmy 49 C which is about 118 F. We went out in the afternoon to Avenues to do some grocery shopping and we ate lunch at T.G.I. Fridays. Michael and I split a BBQ chicken salad and then I had fried mushrooms and he had wings. It was a change from what we usually eat when we are out. We then drove back home so that Ash could see Miley Cyrus on one of the morning shows which is on here at 4 p.m.. After that we got back into the car and drove to "The Scientific Center" to see the largest Aquarium in the Middle East. We also went to see the IMAX movie "The Deep Sea" in 3D and it was really good. It costs us 16KD for us to see all of the exhibits which figures out to be $60.21 in US money. So a bit steep but it was well worth the visit.