How I Spent My Veteran's Day Holiday

On Veteran’s Day Jeremy and I went boating. A man from the church named Yusef invited us to come on his boat and go fishing with him. He loves to fish. Just the other day he caught a barracuda. So we went. Jeremy drove.

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Yusef sat in the back trawling. This means he dangled a fishing line over the back of the boat while we went slow.

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And I took pictures. So everybody had a job.

You can find more pictures than are included in this post on the sidebar, under Pages, under “Pretty Pictures,” under “Bahrain by Boat.”

I took pictures of the shoreline,

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of the Islamic Library which isn’t open yet,

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and tried to get a picture of our building. I finally did.

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You’ll notice tall buildings–not the left most one, but the second group–there’s a white one with a white and pink one directly next to it. If you look closely you can see it looks like it has a little gazebo thing on the roof. That’s our building. If our apartment were high enough you’d be able to see our windows–but we’re on the second floor (in American that’s the fourth floor) and so the other buildings cover it up, I think.

I also tried to take pictures of the ship yard which is just on the other side of the base. As usual it wasn’t very busy.

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And I also took a picture of the bridge connecting the main island with Muharraq, name of the island and the city on it. This is also where the airport is, so if you ever come visit me, you’ll travel across this bridge, or actually, probably across one of the other two bridges linking the two islands. They don’t look as nice as this one, though.

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We also saw a big boat.

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Yusef called it a dhow, and it did look like the smaller ones,

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only bigger. We couldn’t tell what the cargo was. Notice the laundry hanging out to dry on the back.

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And then we caught a fish! It flopped around a lot. Here’s Jeremy with the fish at the end of the trip after we came on shore. In case you’re wondering what kind, it was a mackerel.

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After that we had some engine trouble, but Yusef was able to get us going again so we drove around the water very fast. I even took a turn at the wheel.

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We also passed the Arad Fort.

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We haven’t been there yet. I didn’t know it was so close. It seems farther away when getting to it by car, I guess because you have to go around the water instead of cutting across it, like we did in the boat.

We went under the other two bridges to Muharraq, and after this we came back in, but the tide was out, so Yusef let us out on some rocks and we climbed up. Then he anchored his boat and waded in. After this he got some knives and proceeded to slice the fish up and gave us some of the slices. So now we have mackerel steaks in our freezer. Anybody know how to cook mackerel? Anybody want to come over and cook for us? All you can eat fish steak if you do!