Scared Monkeys Discussion Forum

Yes that is right I am here now, and sheesh I get into the forum easier from here then home. so far knock on wood
Well I arrived this morning after a long ass trip from washington state. I flew to London arriving there early with a
8 hour lay over then flew onto Kuwait I was quite surprised we flew all through Iraq that was interesting looking down on.. But I arrive here wednesday morning 7 am and was happily reunited with my daughter who has been living here for over a year now. I am here for 2 weeks.. my first day i spend out cold i was so tired from travel i slept until tonight and look where I am now blogging at midnight.. I will be going out a bit tomorrow while my daughter works
and take some pics and try to post i am not good at that.. but from what i can see very sandy country and toasty warm.. the area i am there is mass construction loks like apartment/ condo being build and my daughter calls teh rest sand lots.. LMFAO  i will post pictures hopefully Klaas can walk me through that again.. just thought i would share my vacation since i cant do alot here. I wont drive they are nutters and my daughter has to work she will be off every other day for us to go sight seeing if there is anything really to see.. I do plan on going to Kuwait towers as they say that is best place to see the city and take pictures.. I really want to ride a camel but my daughter said I was smoking crack.. but sheesh when do you have a chance to ride a camel ?? well I am safe and sound so far
i will keep you informed and post pictures soon.. BTW no caffine in pop here , that should be a crime right there..
but there is starbucks so I am in there.. take care keep up good work

Ps I hope they nail cop dude he is a goon

WOW - all the way from Kuwait!  Cool!  Let me know when you are ready to post some photos and I'll gladly help.  You can always email me at smklaas@hotmail.com

P.S. I hear camels are pretty mean  :lol:

well i heard they spit and stink, but like i told my daughter i dont want to live with one just ride one LOL

Wow cool Sue!

How is the situation in Kuwait?
Do u have see this kind of thing is Kuwait?
http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/geography_images/Kuwait_City_Liberation_Tower.jpg

This picture seems very good for Kuwait, I never thought this buildings they have there.
And do they people there speak good English? Or just only Arabic?

oklet me try this again i typed all this stuff to you and when i click send my internet died which happens here often
so I will try and go quicker.. things are good here in Kuwait, Many older ppl here appreciate the americans as we saved there country. the younger generation just dont understand from what i have heard.. My Greeter this morning told me the older kuwaitee really love americans , many speak there native language but some do try speaking english.i just met my daughters neighbor who my daughter said hasnt spoke to her once since she has lived in this building and she tried very hard to speak english and I thought she did quite well. what i have seen so far is alot of cement,brick and sand
very dry barron country flying in.. mass construction going on specially where my daughter lives which is south of kuwait city on the east coast of kuwait in a town called Mouboula.. there is alot of american in this area
I will post some pics tomorrow

Well Sue, since we just spoke at Greta's blog and that's how I found out about this exciting trip of yours, I came over to say hi and looking forward to seeing your pics.  Hope your trip is enjoyable and educational.  Please tell us all the details as you are able.  I hope the young one's learn from the elders what the Americans have done for them.  It's there history, there opportunity to excell and I hope they stay our friends!

Have fun and See ya soon!

Di

okie first off meet my grandson, he is sure happy to have company during the day,but he keeps attacking my
feet he even drew blood little monster

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but he is pretty damn cute

He's beautiful!

This is looking out my daughters kitchen window, This is what she calls the sand lot
There is much construction going on here many condo,apartments and they call them FLATS

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Sue - FYI, you can actually resize your photos in photobucket.  If you go to EDIT, then RESIZE and make them 640 x 480 they will fit the page better.   Don't make them any smaller than 320 x 240 though or they will be too small. 

Not that you have to resize them, I just thought I'd let you know. 

Have a great visit with your daughter !!  Awesome photos  :)   Ty for sharing them..  !!!
 What a view from her kitchen window..  WOW !

here is looking from her balcony.. the Building straight ahead she said they been working on since she came here a year ago, on the back side they just put in a Starbucks and Cinnabon thank god

the building to the left is under construction, like many i see from every angle
the water in the back ground YES is the Gulf I guess when I go look close enough there is a HUGE navy
shipparked out there because there is a NO fly going on so there launching planes from the ship

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 Lets try that again quicker the internet goes out alot SHEESH
this is looking directly from my daughter balcony

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nice sunny day looking over the gulf

Great pictures Sue!

Are all of the building so tall?  Is most of the housing like that?

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more construction in back ground

Well everytime I post something and take the time to write everything out
The internet kicks out and I lose everything I typed,So Im gonna try this typing
Into word and copy and paste so it is faster..
With the few picture I posted there are taken in Mahboula, Kuwait.
That is where my daughter lives and most of the american that live here.
As you can see there is a lot of construction going on as they are building up this area
A great deal. Here are a few things I have learned and some strange ones also
I can take pictures of anything, But I can not directly take any pictures of the woman
Or there children. You do not approach woman here and talk to them . I havent been out much
Yet but the woman I have seen all wear Burka’s and cover up I have seen a few without but not
Many..I am sure I will get some pics of woman but I will not disrespect them and point a camera
At them. Now this morning 5 am I heard all this loud arabic talking , I was like what the hell
My daughter boyfriend took me to the balcony and pointed to this make shift building /shed
Thingee and said it was a make shift mosque for the workers and stuff and all the racket I heard
Was him calling out for prayer.. rather rude at 5 am but what the hell.. Next time I am up at 5 am
I will record this with my camera and post it.. I guess there is another one coming at Noon for prayer
Again.. I am 8 floors above he wont know im recording.. I thought it was quite nice my daughters
upstairs neighbor knocked on the door she is a kuwait police officer and although my daughter has
lived in this building since February this lady has never spoke to her.. well she was asking us
If we minded that they are having BIG party and there will be live music and wanted to know if it was
ok , her english was poor but I thought she didn’t really well I understood exaclty what she was saying
My daughter on the other hand was like HUH??? She was quite friendly and asked us for coffee and
invited us to this big party.. I want to go I am eager to see and learn there culture.
If I go I will make sure I tell you all about it .. My sleep schedule is so screwed up I don’t know
Whether I am coming or going..I arrived here Wednesday morning 7 am took me 24 hours of travel to
 get here, I stayed up a few hours and crashed hard not waking until my daughter got home 7 pm last
night , well I have been up ever since it is 9:30 am Thursday morning almost time for a nap I think.
My daughter has a very demanding job and cant really take extra days off which I understand
This is a vacation for me and anyone that knows me personally know I don’t leave my job often
So I am just glad to be away, She will be off Saturday and we will go raise hell here and I will get lot
More pictures..This is just such a great expierence I am just happy to be here with my daughter
Well I will write more later and if the damn internet will allow I will post pictures also

Ps funny when you look at Monkey home page all the ads mine are all in arabic

It all appears to be housing, and most of what i have seen is tall.. it does appear that lower
floors are business like that building directly in front it is Starbucks and Cinnabon and there is a
Ruby Tuesdays across from that

How fascinating!  I would love to go to that party and learn a new culture too!   How nice of the neighbor to ask!

It's nice scenery, and so close to the beach.  I bet that would be interesting, just to walk up and down the beach.   

ROFL, when you got woke up at 5am prayer time!  I couldn't help but crack up.  That would get sooo annoying!  Well luckily you are around the American part and have some Western restauants/coffeeshops to hit up!   But make sure you hit any markets and try new things too.  Try to take advantage of the new temporary life, enjoy and learn!

Thanks so much for sharing this exciting trip.  I wish I was there! ;)

I recorded like a one minute video of this calling of prayer but i cant get it to upload from here partly there damn Pc
I will post when I get home.. sheeesh at lunch time they do the calling there was like 50 men bowing on carpets in parking lots
and a guy chanting prayer over a loud speaker for over a hour

Sue - did you go to that party? 

no it was was daughters day off work and she took me out, I will be posting about that outing
quite sad actually we visited the zoo.. im sure you have been to a few zoo's in your days like i have
this was just sad and pathetic and these people here have NO appreciation for the beauty of the animals

How sad.  Did you get photos at the zoo?

Quite honestly i am happy sitting around I think I will actual survive this vacation
The people drive like total maniacs they dont use blinkers, they speed in excess
I have seen 3 major wreck in just a few times i have been out and my daughter has seen
more then she can count. I will get some pictures of wrecked cars on side of road they leave there
we had a guy yesterday blow past us I swear he was going more then 100 miles an hour weaving
in and out of traffic. the kids dont wear seat belts i see them bouncing all over the cars
and helmet are optional on motorcycles. I looked up some statisitic it is quite disturbing
If I lose my daughter here it will be because of a traffic accident
Kuwait
 
 
Overall facts and figures
The rate of traffic accidents in Kuwait is four times more than in most industrial countries.
The total number of dead during the past 10 years has reached 3,000.
Kuwait ranks third in the number of deaths caused due to road accidents

2003 Statistics
45,376 accidents took place
An average of 124 accidents per day
372 people killed

2004 Statistics
55,000 traffic accidents took place
An average of 150 accidents per day
400 people killed

2005 Statistics
57,000 traffic accidents were reported
An average of 156 accidents per day
455 people killed

2006 Statistics
There were 44 road fatalities in January of 2006
There were 39 road fatalities in May of 2006
There were 29 road fatalities in June of 2006
273 persons died in road accidents over the period Jan 2006 - September 2006
Source - Kuwait Society for Traffic Safety (KSTs)

Source - Kuwait General Traffic Department

honestly i was petrified being in a car

I noticed in the photos you posted I didn't see any people?  Is that because it's all new construction or is it an area people just don't walk around in much?

there are lots of people  but your not suppose to take pictures of the woman
im trying hard to respect there culture although i wanted to beat a few of there kids at the zoo
there was so many people at zoo we were only american in the whole place so I didnt take alot
of pictures as i didnt want to appear to be taking pictures of them

How bad were the conditions for the animals at the zoo?

there is NO naturla surrounding like you would see like at the San diago Zoo, there is NO water filtration system
in any of the water pools for ducks,hippo, water feeders nothing apparently they had a big break out of bird flu
at the zoo and lost many birds, LIke the goat pens there was way to many of them for the small pens so it stunk to high heavens.. I soon as I run updates on Pc I will uplaod the pics I took and post them.. but there pens are dry and barron
very few plants it is very hot they do have indoor areas for them. at one point the kid were beating on side door had these little coyotes just pacing frantically and one girl was flicking her water bottle full of water at the dingos'
the kids were feeding the monkeys and stuff junk food throwing stuff at them.. they throw empty plastic bottles, pop cans and other crap in the cages here there pop can have the full pull off tabs like the old days I was seeing the tabs inside cages it was very sad the animals dont even look happy at all we left there depressed

OMG Sue, how horrible!

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If your wondering about TV yes they have cable here and yes they have american TV shows

here is a sample of what you see on the screen

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everything is in english with arabic subtitles   hehehe

First off i want to say I didnt take this picture but it speaks a 1000 words

Can any of you guess which one is my daughter???

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Here is another picture of my sweet little grandson, he keeps me company all day while my daughter works

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When the link does not work, try to copy and past the link in a new internet-window.
Well, I understand about, that they don't speak English, but just try it to speak. It seems there a good buildings in Kuwait.

Maybe your daughter can try to speak Arabic words, to the Kuwait people there.
I am sure they find this very nice when someone speak Arabic to they people there, what don't come from Arabic countrys.
Welcome - Marhaba/Marhaban
Hello - Salam/Salaam/Salama/Salem
(Good)bye - Beslama/bslèmah
How are you? Ana bikhir?
Yes - Naam
No - La
Good morning - Sbah el-khir
Good afternoon - Sbah el-khir
Good evening - Msa el-khir 

I see you have experienced prayer call and prayers.  Prayers five times a day.  I was in the middle east in a more conservative country than Kuwait.  The stores, restaurants and etc. also closed for prayer.  Shopping and eating out took some planning, because they threw us out of the restaurant or store until prayer was over. 

Wow, Sue, I somehow missed this the last couple of days, but I did remember you were traveling to Kuwait.

I must say that I experienced the prayer chanting (if that is the right term) when my SIL & I visited Morocco on a church sponsored trip back in early 2001.  We, too, were cautious about the cultural differences.  We only were allowed outside a mosque we visited on a tour.

Anyway, we did ride a camel out in the desert area, through little villages.  I just spent some time trying to find the pictures of us on them, but they are not in my photobucket and not on this PC.  If you do, just be prepared for the shift when the camel gets up, once you get on....hind legs go up first and when that happens you lunge forward a bit...one of my pics was of me when that happened... :shock:

Glad you are spending time with your daughter & 'grandson'...and thanks for sharing the pics, etc.

Hi NYC,
well my daughter does speak some arabic and her boyfriend alot more as he speak 4 other languages so it comes easier for him
my daughter plans on staying out here for atleast 3 years so im sure she will get my better at it
I will probably visit the liberation towers but there only open on liberation day strangely enough
we are going to kuwait towers on wednesday so i will get lots more pictures as they say that is best place to take pictures of the city

yeah i can imagine that would be strange get out it is prayer time, im learning to blank it out now since i have been here 5 days
but when you have expierenced it ,it sure comes as a shock when you sitting there and it blast out on a loud speaker

Wow Morroco that would be cool, i will soon be learning about Morroco as at home about do alot of work with sister cities international and my city Tacoma just became sister cities with Morroco so im excited to learn alittle about there country
I met a guy yesterday when i went for walk he told me camel riding is further out in the desert.. so If i want to do that i have to track them down as it isnt really a business but poeple that live in the desert and own many camels..

Thanks for sharing your trip.  Fascinating.  Great pictures.  Very different scenery from north GA.

Sue ~  It's great you got the opportunity to travel to Kuwait, and you are learning about a different place and culture.   :smt052 

Hi Muffy,
yes this has been a wonderful opportunity for me, With my daughter living here why not take advantage of her being
here to travel to middle east.. I plan on posting lots more pictures, I am just having trouble on this computer
damn VISTA anyways this computer gets more errors then the suspect lies.. There is so many things i wanted to take pictures
of but wasnt allowed to , like when I was on the military air base where my daughter works. But would have loved to take pics there.. My days are getting numbered here and honestly i get real choked up when I think of leaving my daughter
again.. She will be home for christmas but for only 4 days then god knows when I will see her. i would imagine a year.. I will come back out here as she plans on staying atleast 3 years here.. I leave 28th here will return home 17 hour flight same day
as I will time travel back into time.. after I get situated i will post many more pictures.. quite honestly there isnt much to see
alot of construction and sand  LMFAO
Hopefully while in flight this case will bust loose and the perps will go down, I will not be happy if they release them again
well I will be intouch

Sue

Sue ~  I look forward to seeing your photos when you are ready to post.  I can tell you will miss your daughter when you leave, because you are missing her already and haven't  even left.   :sad:.  I hope you two can email regularly.  Also, you might want to look into a long distance company such as Vonage.  When my family and I lived in Saudi, I brought Vonage with me.  I got an area code that was in Texas, where most of my family lived.  They could call me free, as much as they wanted if their area code was the same as the one I had chosen.  For others outside the area code I had chosen, it was like making a long distance call elsewhere in the U.S.  My cost was $35.00 a month.    Just some ideas, so you can stay in contact with your daughter.  Being able to talk is wonderful.  Not quite like being there, but was nice.  I hope you continue to enjoy your visit and I look forward to hearing about your adventures and what you are seeing and experiencing.

Ok Monkeys, I made it safe and sound from my trip to Kuwait
with late flights and crap i ended up flighing 17 hours

But first thing I want to share, is the thing I bitched about in the beginning of my trip, I tried so hard to upload this while i was there
but between Vista's errors and crappy internet was unable to..
First off seems everywhere you look there is a Mosque your not suppose to take pictures, But I snapped a few ( come get me Kuwaitee cops) I will go back :lol:...  But here is my favorite so to speak.. Where I was staying in Mahaboula there is just mass construction, ON each side of where my daughter lives there are huge condo/apartments being built, so there are workers everywhere.. Right below my daughters balcony there is a make shift Mosque and they do what is called " The Calling Of Prayer"
5 damn times a day BUT>>>> BUT it starts at like 4:30 am to 5:00 am in the morning is the first call.. WELL GOOD MORNING TO ME  that is how I woke up every single morning that I stayed there
Here is a sample

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anyone of you Monkeys that have been to the middle east will totally relate to this... Ps I had to watch and listen this morning
what a reality check I am home

There are many American restaurants in Kuwait, you name it they have it what is starange is the signs IN english then in Arabic

Here is my favorite, I went here almost everyday it was really close
to my daughter and a safe walk for me

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This next one you will know, Kinda blury a bit I took from my daughter's balcony and zoomed in
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Now these pictures are pretty good and the building was so cool
sitting right on the Arabian Sea with a beautiful few
Hard Rock Cafe Kuwait
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Klaas here is teh link for above that didnt show
could you place it right for me please
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OK we will recap this segment, As I spoke about in prior thread
a few pages back "MY GOD THEY DRIVE NUTS" 
They have fender benders, you see it in cars everywhere there
But they have major wrecks daily I saw minimum of 25 wrecks
here again is the statistics

Overall facts and figures
The rate of traffic accidents in Kuwait is four times more than in most industrial countries.
The total number of dead during the past 10 years has reached 3,000.
Kuwait ranks third in the number of deaths caused due to road accidents

2003 Statistics
45,376 accidents took place
An average of 124 accidents per day
372 people killed

2004 Statistics
55,000 traffic accidents took place
An average of 150 accidents per day
400 people killed

2005 Statistics
57,000 traffic accidents were reported
An average of 156 accidents per day
455 people killed

2006 Statistics
There were 44 road fatalities in January of 2006
There were 39 road fatalities in May of 2006
There were 29 road fatalities in June of 2006
273 persons died in road accidents over the period Jan 2006 - September 2006
Source - Kuwait Society for Traffic Safety (KSTs)

Source - Kuwait General Traffic Department

Here is just a few examples of what I saw, they leave the cars on sidewalks, side of road and in sandlots for a week or more before they remove them

#1  this car was left right on a sidewalk
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These next two are seperate wrecks, I went to Kuwait towers twice and they added a car between visits
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This one here by looks I dont think they survived, it they did it is a miracle
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PS: my daughter got her rump in that one :roll:

Well Here is Fahaheel Mall, it is just beautiful there day or night
the fountains in the middle shoot to music, but are mainly displayed at night so I got pics of both


Pictures by day time
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Pictures by night
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Here is some scenery pictures from the observation tower at
Fahaheel Mall
The Arabian Coast
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Fahaheel Marina
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Look very closely at this pictures back ground a oil facility is in back ground, Just so you know gas is like 40 cents a gallon there
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Klaas, you were asking about people there and that there wasnt eny in my pictures.. as I explained it is like voo doo to take there pictures and I tried to respect that.. But for you I zoomed a few shots from observation level, but let me say this every single place you go there in there garb as my daughter calls it, some woman mostly saudi woman the damn thing you see is the slits of there eyes through there burkas and shit to think they drive like that


You can see the woman sitting around the table in there burka's
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Here there are a couple Arab men enjoying lunch by the  fountain
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There are just some random water front pictures taken in Salmiya
as you can see there is so much construction everyhwere you looks
there is cranes, buildings cover with scaffling, much is just expanding but also much is still rebuilding from the Iraq invasion

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This one is a restaurant kinda cool looking
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Here are some random pics of me and my daughter

This is Christy in front of Marina Mall
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This is Christy at Kuwait Hilton we were Smoking Shia out of Big Kooka's that is a big thing there ( like smoking fruit) nope dope  :lol:
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Ok here is Me, this was at the Salmiya water front, notice the kitty in picture, there are ferral kats everywhere you look wild kitties
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Just below Kuwait Towers
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I am a shrimp, but in the sceme of this picture I am even smaller
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Me with Arabian Sea in back ground
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This is the Kuwait Towers it is a real focal point to what Kuwait
represents it is the Icon to Kuwait and enjoyed by tourist nation wide
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This one here was from observation level looking down that ball has one million gallons of water in it :shock:
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These next 2 pictures although now real clear will give you a idea
of what Iraq was trying to do to Kuwait
They are pictures hanging inside the Kuwait towers of the destruction that those asshole Iraq peopel did to the towers when they came in a invaded

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This is the water slide park and go-cart track below Kuwait towers
these pictures may be cloudy from taking pictures through windows
and also the sand on windows( alot of Sand there )

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/MyKuwaitTrip109.jpg)

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Note this: we went by a water park in Mahaboula the woman still wear there full burka's going down the water slides NO bikini's there

  These are Random pictures of the view from Kuwait Towers

sorry some are not clear taking pictures through dirty glass sucks


The Streets below and again more construction in back ground this is Kuwait City
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This Is Kuwait City and that tower is the Liberation Tower built after the invasion to mark Kuwaits Liberation from the Iraq invasion
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This is a coast line shot
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This is taken looking South of Kuwait City that is Salmiya in teh background
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Just another Marina in Kuwait city

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The Liberation Tower is the tallest structure in Kuwait. Construction of the tower commenced before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. It was meant to be called The Kuwait Telecommunications Tower.

When the invasion took place, construction, which was almost half-way complete, was put on hold. However, the structure received no damage, and construction resumed after Saddam's forces were expelled on February 27, 1991. Upon completion in 1993, the tower was renamed the Liberation Tower, symbolizing Kuwait's liberation from Iraq.

The tower contains a revolving restaurant and observation platform (in the first disc-shaped pod; now closed to the public for security reasons), and also houses radio and other telecommunications offices. The structure stands at 372 meters high (1,220 ft) at its pinnacle. The roof of the second pod on the tower is 308 meters high (1,010 ft).

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Here is a web you can visit to see more pictures and history
http://www.embassyofkuwait.ca/gallery.htm

This picture is a drive by shooting lmfao

This is a Palace, crap I would hate to clean it, but everyone has maids so OH well

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/MyKuwaitTrip072.jpg)

Ok here is a shot of a Mosque, your not suppose to take pictures
of them.. ( come get me Kuwaitee's take me back) I miss my daughter

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There Mosque are very beautiful and many are JUST HUGE..

I thought this was cute a little arab couple sitting all close at
the beach

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These are just random pictures, I think i may have posted a few already This is Mahaboula where my daughter lives
The building in Middle she use to live at, wish she still did they had a swimming pool, ( dont think i would have looked good in all black laying by pool thought) :roll: and a bikini im sure would have got lots of looks

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/MyKuwaitTrip153.jpg)

Looking out from balcony at the construction
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This is Alia Galia Tower, I walked over there alot that was where the Starbucks store was and Cinnabon
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/MyKuwaitTrip152.jpg)

Ok so to finalize everything.. Christmas ever My daughters boyfriend asked to to get married on the water and she accepted
they are getting married Sept 2008 back here in the states
this picture was taken Christmas Eve after he proposed

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/ChristyandJJ.png)

Now for the fun part for a mom, wedding dress shopping.. She is going to have a hand maid( NO ONE ) will have this dress ever
This is the dress type that she chose, they are hand maid every stitch  $1500 american ONLY  I was shocked

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Well this pretty much sums up my vacation to Kuwait
I hope you all have enjoyed the sum what tour.. doing this gave me something to do while I was there and it gave you guys something else to read and look at..
I hope you enjoy

Sue

Another quick note... OSHA  would have a hay day there
there building and scafflings and stuff would never fly here ever

Wow, what a beautiful place!  Looks like you got to do alot and learned alot too.  Thank you for posting all of this.  I almost felt like I was there too! ;)

Your daughters' wedding dress is gorgeous!  You will have to post some wedding pics!

Glad you had a nice trip.  I'm sure it will take a couple days to recover from jetlag! Thanks again for sharing!

Yes it was quite beautiful, sadly they litter so bad there like there is NO pride..I had a wonderful time and truly hated to leave, I havent cried that much since i dont know when( even flight attendants) thought i was losing it and even had extra security screening i think they thought i was wasted ( no drugs or booze involved) just drowning tears
that is not her exact dress but she will have one made kinda like that
she wants a detachable train on it... glad you like the pictures

Sue, I was looking at your pictures & posts earlier this morning while you were still working on this thread.  I held off posting and I'm glad I did.  You added lots more and it's great. 

You made me try to think back about my trip to Morocco and I think I may have taken a group shop of some with us in front of the mosque we visited and the guide quickly told us it was a no-no.  We kind of laughed about taking group shots with the bus in the background instead of the mosque...

We also found that male shop owners when we were browsing would physically touch us, like taking our arm, to draw us to other merchandise.  It freaked me out, but was afraid to react for fear I'd be arrested for insulting the shopkeeper.  If someone touched us here, that would be something else.

All of my photos were on a 35mm and the ones I had online, a co-worker did for me back in 2001.  I think I may have lost them, so I'd have to scan what I have and put a CD or something to compare with yours.  (our scanner is broken, and I'd have to find the pics to do it, though)

Your daughter is lovely and her gown will be exquisite.  As I said before, I'm glad you got to spend time with her and I certainly understand how you must have felt leaving. 

Thank you for sharing all of this. 

'Sue thanks so much for sharing your trip and the photos with us....WOW~!  Congrats to your beautiful daughter on her engagement and OHMYGAWD the dress is going to be absolutely fantastic

Sue - thank you for sharing your travel experience with us and also those lovely pictures. I am surprised that they litter so badly and I guess all the building activity is in answer to the refugees from other Middle East countries due to the war and other conditions.
Your daughter has grown into a beautiful young lady and I wish her every happiness for her life ahead. I hope you will post more pictures from her forthcoming wedding.
Thank you again.

WOW..........all I can say is simply.....WOW ~!!! What a fabulous trip! That wedding gown is to DIE for!!!!!!!!!!! WOW........

Yes my trip was just wonderful, i real reality check with everything
that has gone on in the middle east.. I am already planning my next visit
even considering applying for a job there.. specially if Hillary is voted in a president IM OUT OF HERE

Here is a few extra pictures, I did not take them as them would not allow.. But I had a connection.. ONe of my daughter co-workers
shot these..

This is the air base where my daughter works
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The Port where she works
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As Her friend said NO lunch break today
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Day Ground Crew
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This is a russian plane

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C-5 load

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The Men and Women that give us our Freedom
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Here is my favorite.. My daughter has told me time and time again
about the sand storms they have over there
It grounds planes and work period
The Guy that took this picture Josh his signature line on this photo
was " Man We will be shitting sand castles later"   I laughed

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/BigMouse1925/SandStorm.jpg)


Truly this is a actual photo

WOW!  Those pics are awesome and amazing!   The sandstorm one, looks kinda scary!  :shock: That would kill me with my contacts, I'd have to hide undercover until it passed! :P

I love the pic our troops in front of that Huge plane!  Almost made me cry.  God Bless them all!

Thank your daughter for her service and her friend who sent the pics for me!

Yes they are pretty amazing pictures, It was quite a honor to meet alot of the soldiers i met over there that day i was on base.. Lucky for me my daughter is civillian but she is still considered deployed in a combat zone
that why they get the big bucks

Sue.. thanks for sharing those pictures and that trip... I have been saving this thread for a special time.... when I needed a little pick me up.  WOW it's unbelievable...!!! I want to visit..

next time you go, put me in the suitcase!

Yes it was wonderful trip and anytime you want to go your more then welcome or you can come visit west coast.. bring your bikini  :lol:

Sue :)
  Thank you for sharing your trip with us. I have been reading and looknig at your pics when I have time.
Felt like I was on a virtual vacation  :)   Some of the pics dont show up for me though?  The sand storms and a few others. I see a red x in a box?  lol
 I am glad you had a nice time and gorgeous photos. I love your daughters wedding gown.. she will look like a princess!

Angie, I was able to view those pictures when Sue first posted them, but I, too, see little boxes with a red X.....maybe it's a photobucket issue?  I right clicked and the link is there.....not sure.

 :smt102 I wil try that 2NJ   :)  TY

Newp.. didnt work !

Here is Sand storm Picture again ( this is a must see)

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This wedding dress look like on Morocco wedding dress. All that kind of wedding dress been so beautiful.

(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c339/bridals/edenbridals.jpg)