Last weekend Gavin and I decided to leave the kids and have an all day outing in Bahrain. We haven't gone too much this year just because we were usually busy with some type of sport or kid activity but finally had a Thursday to ourselves. We left the compound at about 8:30 in the morning for our adventure. This is leaving our compound. All the compounds are barricaded and have security checks to go through. This is the exit as we drive out of our compound.
We decided to take a few pictures on our way to Bahrain. This is a shopping center on the road by our house.
We live about 1/2 a mile from the gulf coast and right off the coast near our house is this large desalination plant. For months we weren't sure what this was because it looks like a fancy building on a little island off the coast but eventually learned it is a desalination plant.
Bahrain is an island off the coast of Saudi. They built this long causeway connecting Saudi with Bahrain. We actually can drive right up to the beach here but not real advisable without four wheel drive.
In the middle of the causeway they built a man made island where the border and customs is located between Bahrain and Saudi.
Here we are entering one of several stops as we enter Bahrain.
Bahrain is a basically just a big city. There is all kinds of construction of new projects going on.
This was a pretty cool building in Bahrain. It was shaped like sails on a boat. In between the buildings they had these wind turbans.
Bahrain is only about 45 minutes to an hour from our house depending on the traffic at the border. It is much more relaxed then Saudi. Women don't have to wear abaya's and can actually drive. They have several large malls with movie theaters. Gavin and I ended up at the City Center Mall and went to see "The Avengers". We felt like we were back home in the states for a little while with a real movie theater and real popcorn. We did a little shopping and headed back home. It was a nice relaxing day!
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