Max's First Trip to Old Jubail

About a month ago I went with some friends to Old Jubail. It was a beautiful day outside and we wanted to hunt for a long table cloth that would cover our enormous dining tables in the villas. Our friend Linda had found a nice one in one of the shops so we were hoping they'd have more.

The linen shop was very nice and they had a lot of nice towels, sheets, and robes but they were all on the expensive side. We opted to not pay 290 SAR ($77!!) for a children's robe with a bunny on it but it sure would have been cute in the Easter basket. I did however find these cute bath towels for Max:

If it has a vintage airplane on it I can't pass it up!

Unfortunately they only had one tablecloth and we needed another 4, so at first he told us to come back in one month. We said we needed them sooner than that, and then he said he could get them in one week. He made us promise to come back, and then told us four days. Before leaving he took Lauren's phone number and said he would call when they arrived. So will we go back in 4 days? One week? One month? Who knows!

(Update--The tablecloths were in the following week! Maybe someday I'll put it on my table :) )

Our next stop was Big World!

Thankfully we did not see any rats today. Big World is like a giant dirty dollar store. They have almost anything and everything. Today my friends were looking for Trolls colored things for their girls birthday party. Finding birthday party decorations is quite the adventure here because you can't just go to Target or Party City and pick up coordinating items in your theme of choice. But Big World usually comes through for us.

Headbands of every shape and size! 2 SR for a pack of 3! What a deal! But look closely because sometimes people take a headband out and then you only get a pack of 2.

We also found these lovely items in the toy section.

Clearly someone in the translation department was having fun with his job.

And I'm not sure what happened to this pillow of a candy bar:

After our fun filled morning in Old Jubail we decided to go to a restaurant with a patio for lunch. This was a restaurant we used to frequent for breakfasts but had not been in a long time. We walk in and announce we want to sit on the patio.

"M'am you cannot take the child on the patio."

"Why sir?"

"M'am the child is not allowed on the patio for safety."

"The child is two months old in a car seat. We will not get him out of the car seat"

"Sorry m'am you are not allowed. Would you like to speak to the manager?"

"Yes we would like to speak to the manager"

A man walks out from the back, circles around in front of us as we say "Sir? Are you the manager?" then waves his hand and walks back to the kitchen. I was so mad!!! We told them we were leaving and we weren't coming back.

So we went to the new Outback Steakhouse for lunch and had a very enjoyable meal. And that was the end of Max's first Old Jubail adventure.