18 Hour Days = No Time for Blogging

We ran into a major hiccup yesterday that I won't go into detail about, but as a result, my day started at 7:30am and ended at 2:00am (starting again at 7:30am this morning). This is beginning to be a pattern, so I'm struggling to find time to blog as thoroughly as I'd like, let alone do anything else.  

Wish I had some more interesting pictures to share, but the Hotel to Jobsite to Hotel routine doesn't make for many great photo opportunities.  Even our eating and water run habits are repetitive, since we have few options let alone energy when we need either.   Typically, we just set out from our hotel into the surrounding neighborhood on the same daily route, which looks a little like this:

All of these photos are from a single block between our hotel and our usual destination.

75% of the retail spaces look like this - abandoned and littered with remnants of their former life.  Depressing and creepy at the same time.

This guy just set up his "office" in one of the gutted, windowless spaces.  Makes me laugh (and admire his resourcefulness) every time we walk by.

 
Our path.  Right behind where this picture was taken from is a small grocery store we buy water at every morning as well as three separate soft serve ice cream stands.  Raven and I both had two each yesterday - chocolate vanilla swirl.  You can actually pull your car up to the curb and someone will run out and take your order, which is wise seeing that eating ice cream in 100 degree weather is a losing battle.

Next block.

Kuwait "drinking fountains".  The water is desalinated and actually tastes great...well, out of my bathroom faucet.  Not sure about these, and not sure I'm willing to find out.

The best food option we've found so far - a Kuwaiti chain that serves yummy chicken kabobs and rice.

Much more to write about, but need to sign off for now and get some sleep.