Friday, September 17, 2010

Watch out your abaya!

I shopped for 12 hours in the big city yesterday. And I've managed to boil the entire experience down to six awesome photographs.

Taken near an escalator:

The translation was clearly done by Google Translate, which doesn't believe in prepositions.

Taken at a restaurant with separate lines for women and men. The sign in the upper left-hand corner reads "LADIES."

I'm slightly confused about the point of side-by-side separate lines for men and women in a fast-food joint, but these dudes seem to be just confused, period.

Taken at a restaurant called "Thai Thai":

Um, cutest teapot/tea cups EVER.

Taken at a Toys 'R Us:

That's the wall of Hannah Montana dolls. Apparently, her cult following is just as enormous in a country where religions other than Islam are prohibited.

Taken at a supermarket called "Hyper Panda" (uh, best name for a supermarket, ever):

Spring Roles. Maybe inside the package you'll find theater bills?

Also taken at Hyper Panda:

That would be Pillsbury dough boy products, labeled "Organic Food."

2 comments:

  1. tee hee. That's awesome! I love the elephant cups/teapot...though the position of the teapot's rear is concerning. :)

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  2. I just Google mapped KAUST and everything is either sand colored or the tops of the buildings are white, except for the green golf course! :)

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