Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Half Marathon!

This weekend, we traveled to a southern city for the annual half marathon. I (Angela) ran with another friend, and Karl was our official stuff holder. This race was much more organized than the 5k race we ran about 2 months ago!



Here we are at about the half way mark.


The course was beautiful, with the lovely snow capped mountains!


I finished the race in just under 2 hours! We had our picture taken with these people from our city - Karl has coached the boy in the pic basketball! They gave us free t-shirts and hats, which was a nice gift, although I look super dorky with the hat on.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Bon Appetit!

Today we went with some friends to a local camel bucher (just a 20 minute walk from our house!). We picked the meat, and took it to a "restaurant" where they cooked it for us, and served mint tea, bread and veggies. It was actually really tasty!


The key to all of this was to not hang around too long in the meat section - hanging camel is not the most appetizing.




We were eating right next to a mosque, so we were watching the men pray. It was quite a cultural experience!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Its raining

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while! I just haven't taken any pictures. Its been raining a bunch, so I guess that's my excuse. I am including some pictures from the year that I never posted. I'll have some more updates later.

This cafe is close to where Karl coaches basketball. Good name, right!?