Lateish but still: مبارك عليكم الشهر

I haven’t been posting for the past few days because I Just came back from Umrah a couple of hours ago. This might be a little late but I wanted to say: “مبارك عليكم الشهر “

I’m Back

I am back in Kuwait, The weather is not that bad here or maybe I just missed the worst part. Anyway its good to be back.

The 24 Hour Journey Back Home

So today is my last day here in the US, I will be heading back to kuwait enshalla. My flight plan is as follows: San Antonio – Dallas – New York – Kuwait. Currently I’m in JFK airport in New York waiting for my Kuwait Airways flight 118 to board. The weather is unstable here in NYC, there was some heavy showers and some thunderstorms when we came in to land. I’m almost halfway through my trip. Hope the second half goes as smoothly as the first half.

The Horseshoe

When I first arrived here in San Antonio. One of the first places that the guys here took me to was “The Horseshoe”. Its a stretch of the Guadalupe river that is known for tubing (aka toobing). The guys had their own tubes so we went directly to the entry point and entered the water were it was FREEZING.

The 1 mile trip took us 2.5 hours to complete. The weather was great and the place was packed, a little too packed actually, going to the horseshoe and back home took 2 hours each way (usually 1 hour) but still, had fun.

Seeing More of Texas

I left Wichita Falls yesterday and went to San Antonio. This time I flew there thank god. I had an issue when I fist saw the airplane but soon I got over m fears. The best thing in Wichita Falls were Ronnie’s Burger. The Theaters were horrible and I only went and saw 2 movies and I have some catching up to do.

The funny thing was, on the flight to Dallas me and my friend were the only 2 people on the plane. Really I’m not joking, they operated the flight just for us and made us sit in the last row too.

The stewardess even suggested that we share a can of coke. The flight was 20 mins to Dallas and then 45 mins from Dallas to San Antonio.

Some Familiar Food

Being in the US for over 10 weeks now, we had a craving for arabian food, and since we were in Dallas, we decided to try out Fadi’s as it was also in Houston but me and Zidaneoo didn’t have time to try it out.
The place is like an open bar, you pick up your plate and start filling it with all types of appetizers. When you get to the meat section you have a single choice if you decided to go with the $13 order, and every extra order of meat (Kebab, grilled chicken, lamp chops…) is for an additional $4. The food was decent and the prices were more than reasonable, the staff were super friendly.

To Dallas and Back

I didn’t post the last couple of days because me and the guys decided to go to Dallas for the weekend. We drove there on Saturday morning and came back late Sunday. Its just a 2:30 hour drive from Wichita Falls so it didn’t take much out of the day. We stayed at the Westin Hotel located in the Galleria mall in downtown Dallas, it was a very nice hotel with reasonable prices. We didn’t plan to stay there we decided to just look for a place when we got there and the Westin was the first place we looked at. maybe it was laziness that made us stay there but it was a good choice.

The Other Longish Drive

I drove last week for 15 hours from Albuquerque New Mexico to Houston Texas. This time it was form Houston to Wichita Falls. the drive took almost 7 hours with stops, which isn’t as long as the first one.
I’m getting used to long drives as this drive fools like a trip to the supermarket.

Red Lobster

I’ve been here in the states for over 2 months now and haven’t even once been to red lobster. Its not that I was busy or anything but I am more of a burger guy.
And for people who don’t know what Red Lobster is; its a seafood restaurant chain thats not too fancy and not so bad either. Its more of a Friday’s/Chilis level place.

We order some stuffed mushrooms and shrimp bruschetta’s for starters and the Admiral’s Feast to share and a lobster tail each.

The starters were good and the tails were very nice but the Admirals Feast wasn’t that great , I would recommend staying away from that.

Hurricane Alex

Since yesterday the weather was unstable here in Houston. Alex was upgraded from a topical storm to a hurricane yesterday as wind speeds increased dramatically. It’s really raining heavily now wish it rained half as much in Kuwait.
El7imdilla 3ala kil 7al.