It's been a while, here's an update!

Hello all! Sorry it has been so long since the last posting. Life has been flying by here in the "crappy sand box", and Holly let me know that it was time to update the blog, so here we go.

I recently took a morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) trip out into Kuwait City. We made a few stops, the first being the Grand Mosque of Kuwait.

The total size of the mosque is 20,000 square meters, and the main prayer room (above) can accommodate 10,000 (ten thousand...not a typo!) men during prayer time. The mosque was started in 1979, completed in 1986, and the gross cost was roughly 48 million U.S. dollars.

Our next stop was the Kuwait Towers.

The Kuwait Towers (above) were also built in 1979. The tallest of the 3 towers (with two spheres) is 180 meters tall. The lower sphere has a restaurant (great buffet...mmmm food!) and the upper sphere has an observation deck with a breath taking view! The second tower (with one sphere) is 140 meters tall. The single sphere is a 1,000,000 gallon water tank. The last tower (no sphere) and is also 140 meters tall.

As you may know, grass is all but nonexistent in Kuwait, so the lawn at the Kuwait Towers had to have been the highlight of the trip.......I think the picture says it all!

Our last stop for the day was the Center City Mall. This was a large American style mall, and most of our group spent the whole time at the Caribou Coffee. It was a very nice, relaxing day.

In other news........

Our dodge ball team (above) had a great time playing in the base dodge ball tournament. We won a few games, and lost a few games. When it was all said and done, we ended up with a couple bloodied noses, one black eye, and we all had huge smiles on our faces! It was a lot of fun.

On July 4th, 23 co-workers and I joined over 1000 other people in running the Kuwait division of the Atlanta Peach Tree 10K (6.24 mile) run. This was my first 10K run, and I had set a time goal of 1 hour in which to finish the run. I finished in 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 5 seconds. I was very happy with the time! I really did have a good time, and it felt good to finish the run without walking (no lie...I ran the whole thing!).

Well, there is the past month in a nut shell. Not much else to report, so I'll sign off

Until next time,

Zimm