Feb. 14, 1978 - Kuwait

We woke up late and had a restful morning. Gary was at work.  Called home and got a good connection within a minute – the operator just direct dials.  Talked 6 minutes because 3 minutes was just too short.

After lunch with Gary he drove us down to the Saudi Arabian border but the coast is all built up and inaccessible to the public.  We saw Bedouin camps with camels and sheep and goats.  They have dark tents with lighter colored strips on the side.

The sides are a long strip of cloth and the tents are open on one side and tied down with animal hair ropes.  I think the roof cover must be animal skins.  They also now have some more modern white canvas tents, too.

The desert was very green because of some recent rains and there were yellow and white daisies.
We saw black camels and white camels and lots of baby camels.

After dinner we decided to see a film and a student of Gary's came by and wanted to take us to it.  He speaks fairly good English and drove us in his car.  He bought us a ticket in the box seats of the theater.  Gary said that was because I was with them and women don't sit in the same part as bachelors. There was also a “family section” but the box seats are more private.  The film was a dumb one with Michael Cane and Natalie Wood called “Peeper.” 

Before we went to the film we went to a restaurant where they served us fruit drink in our car.  The juice was very think and in layers – papaya, strawberry and banana – yellow, red and white.