One of Rachel's Christmas presents this year was getting an Arab coat here in Saudi. They are the warmest looking things I have ever seen. I think the real ones are made from camels skins but they now have all different kinds of styles. We looked at several shops in old Khobar for coats and found this little store that had tons of the traditional style which basically look like a blanket wrapped around you, as well as, other different versions. After trying a few on, some very strange ones, she decided on this. It is an auburn orange leather print lined with fake fur. It goes all the way to the ground. I think it is pretty cool. We bought this thinking she was going back to Utah in February and could use it there, but now that she won't be going back until April, it might sit in a closet until next winter when she is back in Idaho.
We took a walk along the Corniche several weeks ago and didn't go quite as prepared as we should have. It was freezing!!!! Yes, freezing!. We took a few pictures and left.
Technically we (the women) are supposed to cover our heads here in Saudi but not many do. The Mutawa (religious police) can ask us to cover up and if a real policeman is there they can escort us out of the area but it doesn't happen that often. I hadn't been bothered for 6 months until a few nights ago when we went to dinner down on the Corniche. We were walking around while we waited for prayer time to end and the Mutawa asked Rachel and I to please cover our heads. Of course they didn't talk directly to us, but told Gavin to have us cover our heads. The gentlemen was very polite but neither of us had a scarf so what could we do? We had heard stories about them being rude and to just ignore them and walk away but this guy wasn't rude at all. I felt it was rude of us to just walk away but we had no choice. I guess we better start carrying a scarf around with us.
One of Rachel's Christmas presents this year was getting an Arab coat here in Saudi. They are the warmest looking things I have ever seen. I think the real ones are made from camels skins but they now have all different kinds of styles. We looked at several shops in old Khobar for coats and found this little store that had tons of the traditional style which basically look like a blanket wrapped around you, as well as, other different versions. After trying a few on, some very strange ones, she decided on this. It is an auburn orange leather print lined with fake fur. It goes all the way to the ground. I think it is pretty cool. We bought this thinking she was going back to Utah in February and could use it there, but now that she won't be going back until April, it might sit in a closet until next winter when she is back in Idaho.
We took a walk along the Corniche several weeks ago and didn't go quite as prepared as we should have. It was freezing!!!! Yes, freezing!. We took a few pictures and left. 
Technically we (the women) are supposed to cover our heads here in Saudi but not many do. The Mutawa (religious police) can ask us to cover up and if a real policeman is there they can escort us out of the area but it doesn't happen that often. I hadn't been bothered for 6 months until a few nights ago when we went to dinner down on the Corniche. We were walking around while we waited for prayer time to end and the Mutawa asked Rachel and I to please cover our heads. Of course they didn't talk directly to us, but told Gavin to have us cover our heads. The gentlemen was very polite but neither of us had a scarf so what could we do? We had heard stories about them being rude and to just ignore them and walk away but this guy wasn't rude at all. I felt it was rude of us to just walk away but we had no choice. I guess we better start carrying a scarf around with us.
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