These are just unrelated things we saw on our bus/taxi journey to the airport to rent a car. Below is the Rolex building and someone is washing the windows. Interestingly enough, you can actually see a difference. Everything is covered in dust here.
Below is a wooden yacht that is docked in The Creek. It is very beautiful. I don’t know if it is a private boat or if it is a business – tours or restaurant.
Below, notice the parka in the store window. For those chilly winter temperatures of 80-70F. Burrrrr.
Below is another shot of the big yellow thing they use in assembling the elevated train track. We still haven’t figured out how it is done. The sections are always complete, so they must assemble them on the ground and then hoist them up.
Before we left USA and people would warn us about the heat, I would say, “Hey, everything is air conditioned!” Here is proof. This is the machine for paying for your parking at the airport in its own little air conditioned box. Wouldn’t want you to die of heat prostration while you’re paying for parking.
Hope you enjoy the little things as much as we do.
Archive for November 25th, 2008
Random things we saw today.
November 25, 2008Got wheels!
November 25, 2008So, we rented a car, at least until Dec 3rd when we fly out to Germany for our little vacation. They didn’t have the small size car, so up graded us to a rather luxurious one. Great leg room!
Paul’s mantra as he drives: “I have full insurance. I have full insurance…”
Friday is Scrabble Club, so we won’t get to do fun driving until Saturday! Problem is that we can think of several destinations, but only have the one day to do it in.
Maybe I should explain Scrabble Club. There is a group of people who meet once per month on a Friday and play Scrabble all day. Paul is the Scrabble player, I just sit around reading or entertaining myself as best I can. We’ve only been once (missed the last two due to illness). He played only half the day – four games and won three of them. So, come Friday, game on!
Once a month our neighbor gets a group from the college together to go to Quiz Night at one of the bars in town. There are four categories of questions of 10 each and a picture round with 10 pictures that you have to identify. The picture round this time was Star Trek characters. The MC jokingly told us we had to put down the character name, actor’s name and the episode. I did manage to write down the character’s full names and the actor’s full names. There were insufficient clues for the episodes, which is good because I cannot name the episodes. The sheet is now proudly displayed on our refrigerator. Anyway, our group did well in the other rounds as well and actually won the game. One of the questions in the “entertainment” round was what is the name of Mr. Data’s cat. I knew the answer to that one, too. See, all those hours watching Star Trek paid off.
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