At the Mall on Ramadan

It's Ramadan - so Seasons Greetings!  The common greeting "Blessed Ramadan," or "Ramadan is Generous"

 

Here we are doing a little shopping, but it's not like Christmas shopping at home!  All restaurants here are closed until sundown, and shops are open for  a few hours in the morning before closing at noon until sundown -- but then they stay open until midnight! Everyone one comes teaming out around 9 pm. Interesting to watch but not a good schedule for our family at least. So we are a bit housebound these days. The big grocery stores and "hypermarkets" like Carrefour and the Sultan Center are open all day, so we like to check  these out for things we need to get the house in order, window shop, and escape the heat!

You gotta move fast from the hot sunny parking lot to the AC

Just outside the Sultan Center  - they have everything, including a huge bakery where the boys like to watch the bakers doing their thing.  How appropriate that the night before we had read Maurice Sendak's "In The Night Kitchen."