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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

It's Those Little Things...

I went out shopping at the "Villagio" mall yesterday with Rose. As expected, I wasn't able to take that many photos, since we're advised not to get natives into our photographs.

I did a little bit of shopping -- H&M had some pretty head scarves that I could wear as non-head scarves (i.e., around my neck). But mostly it was awesome to window shop with Rose, the stores there cover the entire spectrum of shopping experiences, from Claire's jewelry all the way to Chopard! We had a fun lunch at a Mediterreanean lounge, mezzahs and chicken sandwiches. Then we just wandered for the afternoon.

I got to pay a visit to the Carrefour store, which I had mentioned previously is a French-owned "hypermart" chain, like Walmart. No, like Super Walmart! So I browsed the grocery section and came across something I hadn't had since I got here...

Orange juice!

For some reason, the juice selection at the dining facilities has been lacking. They have one of those from-concentrate dispenser machines that sometimes works, and the one time I successfully got juice out of it...the juice was brown. Ew?

You can buy shelf-stable juice (i.e., not in the refrigerated section) at the BX, but at Carrefour, they had full-fledged dairy, meats, produce, etc. I decided I'd pick up a carton of fresh orange juice.

That was harder than I thought. The juices were mostly blends of mango, strawberry, apple, pineapple, lemon and orange juices. They all seemed delicious, but I was on a mission.

And then I found it:

From 2009 02 17 Villagio_BilingualSigns

Oops...let me turn the carton around for you:

From 2009 02 17 Villagio_BilingualSigns

Jackpot! I was a good girl and only took one carton, though I was tempted to get about 10 of them! I love orange juice -- especially the super-pulpy stuff. The rest of the family prefers the less-pulp kind (to quote Dave: "I don't want to chew my orange juice"), so I usually enjoy super-thick juices when I'm on my own.

Then I noticed the price: 14 Qatari Riyals. That came to about $4.25 for the 1/2 gallon carton!

Phew!

But I don't care -- I have my OJ and today I've enjoyed to nice 8 oz. glasses (okay, plastic cups) of the liquid sunshine!

One of the things I did take pictures of today were the signs for many of the western companies as translated into Arabic. In fact, visit the original photo album and you can play the "what American company is it?" game with some of the signs...

I might be tempted to sneak in one more glass -- er, cup -- of juice before I head to sleep this afternoon.

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3 Comments:

At Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 6:30:00 AM CST , Blogger Paul said...

The souks in Taif were laid out like the mall - all the gold souks were together, all the music souks together, etc etc. I wonder how they do it? "We have an opening at the mall, but only for a women's clothing store".

I don't think you overpaid for your OJ. In fact, I think it was a real bargain! Fresh squeezed orange juice all the way from Florida? Do you know how much it would cost you to have someone bring you a glass of fresh OJ from Florida? By the way, I'm with you. Chunky-style OJ is the way to go. And my family, like yours, strongly prefers pulp-free. On the rare occasions we do have OJ in the house we have 2 cartons...one for me that no one else touches and 1 for the other 4 to share. Sounds fair to me!

 
At Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 6:56:00 PM CST , Blogger SOBER SISTER said...

Hey, it's me Kelley... The Pixos girl. I invite you to follow my blog as I have yours. Hope your trip to the middle east was good.

http://sobersister2009.blogspot.com/

 
At Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 6:57:00 PM CST , Blogger SOBER SISTER said...

Is there a way to search other blogger sites for other people similar to my site? I am not sure how to use this

 

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