Holidays & Oman

While hanging the Christmas lights, Brian was missing the large spruce tree in our front yard in Calgary, the tall ladder required, & doing the job with big gloves on typically the coldest day of the season - NOT!!! What he was missing, was help from the kids.

For American Thanksgiving we had a progressive dinner with 4 couples - ironically we are all Canadian. This photo is our main course. We eneded at our house with pumpkin cheesecake for desert. I love cheesecake but had never made one before - it was a hit.

The following weekend we traveled to Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, for church business. We went early on Thursday. We stayed with a family and they showed us around a bit. These photos are of the corniche - the yacht belongs to the sultan.

We went shopping at the best souk I've seen. We weren't there long... but long enough for me to make a few purchases.

You can never own too many pashminas. Next we found the jewelry store.

Watching the people is almost as interesting as the shopping.