As I've already discussed in a previous post, women can't drive here in Saudi Arabia. That means we end up spending a fair amount of time in the back seat of cars (get your minds out of the gutter!). I thought I would share a few photos and stories from our car adventures.
Our driver: Here we are with our driver Illias. He has driven us to and from the college every day during our time here and we will miss him! He wore that same outfit pretty much every day, so when he switched to tan one day, we got really excited.
Getting dropped off at the college: Here's my view from the back seat of the car as we wait to get dropped off in the morning at the college gate. It's quite a scene, since every woman entering the college has to be dropped off by a male relative or driver.
Traffic: Here's us sitting in traffic on the freeway. Keep in mind, this is at 10pm on a "Saturday" night. In Jeddah, the traffic gets much much worse on the weekends, particularly weekend nights.
King photo contest: Early in our trip, Eve started to notice that there were a lot of billboards and posters of the King all around Jeddah (we will explain why later). To spice things up a bit, we decided to hold a King photo contest to see who could take the best picture of the King. We will be dedicating an entire blog post to this, but here are a few of my attempts at taking pictures of the King in a moving vehicle. It's really hard!
The beach: Here we are coming back from the Fal Beach Resort in the car with our Egyptian driver, Hisham. He loved to practice his English with us and we had some hilarious conversations. We also marveled at how surprisingly tan Hind looks in this photo.
Self-portrait: Foiled by Eve!
Al-Balad Tour: Here we are on our way to a tour of the old city of Jeddah (another post will be coming on this). I think this is the only photo we have of all four of us in the car. Luckily, our friend Dania from DAH was able to capture this shot!
Our driver: Here we are with our driver Illias. He has driven us to and from the college every day during our time here and we will miss him! He wore that same outfit pretty much every day, so when he switched to tan one day, we got really excited.
Getting dropped off at the college: Here's my view from the back seat of the car as we wait to get dropped off in the morning at the college gate. It's quite a scene, since every woman entering the college has to be dropped off by a male relative or driver.
Traffic: Here's us sitting in traffic on the freeway. Keep in mind, this is at 10pm on a "Saturday" night. In Jeddah, the traffic gets much much worse on the weekends, particularly weekend nights.
King photo contest: Early in our trip, Eve started to notice that there were a lot of billboards and posters of the King all around Jeddah (we will explain why later). To spice things up a bit, we decided to hold a King photo contest to see who could take the best picture of the King. We will be dedicating an entire blog post to this, but here are a few of my attempts at taking pictures of the King in a moving vehicle. It's really hard!
The beach: Here we are coming back from the Fal Beach Resort in the car with our Egyptian driver, Hisham. He loved to practice his English with us and we had some hilarious conversations. We also marveled at how surprisingly tan Hind looks in this photo.
Self-portrait: Foiled by Eve!
Al-Balad Tour: Here we are on our way to a tour of the old city of Jeddah (another post will be coming on this). I think this is the only photo we have of all four of us in the car. Luckily, our friend Dania from DAH was able to capture this shot!
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