It's our first totally free day. And of course, it was a Friday. Friday is the Muslim holy day, and the 2nd day of the weekend over here. I got up early and had breakfast, but by the time we all got going it was almost noon. And everything starts closing at 11:30-1:00 and doesn't open up again until 4:30-5:00 pm. A group of us decided to go to the beach, which is somewhat forbidden. You can't swim at this time of the year, because the monsoon weather is affiliated with a big undertow. Last year 7 Europeans drowned. The program people kept telling us not to go near the beach, you'll get sucked in, it's foggy and you might not see where you are going, yadda yadda yadda. So we went to the beach and the waves were nice. I love to listen to them. They were probably 3-4 feet high. We wandered the beach awhile, but I needed lunch (1 pm then) and a few people hadn't had breakfast, so we caught a taxi to the Hilton. (Yes, I know, but they have wireless and AC.) The Hilton is just what you'd expect, so I'm glad we're at an Omani hotel. But I did get to check e-mail!
Later we caught a taxi back to town and did some looking around and shopped at Lulu's (the Indian Wal-Mart). Salalah is somewhat small. The airport in Musqat is probably a little bigger than the Fayetteville airport. Well, Salalah is the Monroe airport. There's a lot less traffic too. We had fun in the taxis. We spoke Arabic to the drivers, and they were pretty excited and taught us new words. One of them got a little exasperated with us, but in a humorous way.
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