is the title I was going to use for the photos from our trip to the pirate play place, but since Picasa isn’t working at the moment, it’s appropriate anyway. Hopefully the system will stop being buggy soon and I’ll be back to uploading photos to my blog.
In the meantime, my dad is currently in the air on his way back home to CA. We had a fun several days here even though he didn’t get to see much of the island because large parts of it were in states of unrest because of the February 14 anniversary. Josh found a few videos on YouTube that cracked me up because they are incidents that take place where I drive every single day, but I’ve never come across them in my driving to and from school, base, etc. Thankfully.
I’m linking to them directly on YouTube because you may want to check out some of the other ones listed in the sidebar. If they say “Juffair” or February 14, they’re probably from this weekend.
Bahrain After Dark
This one is typical of the stuff that happens at night all the time. This corner is right by the boys’ school and every day we see burn marks on the sidewalks and walls and debris in the street. The cops are the guys with white helmets that throw something back that explodes into sparks.
Boat Show
Displays like this is why the base decided to close the school for the anniversary. This is on the street where the boys’ school is located. It’s less of a personal safety issue and more because the disruptions impede traffic and create a general mess. They also don’t know when things will escalate between cops and the protesters and don’t want anyone to get stuck in the middle of it.
It’s all a little insane, isn’t it? The craziest part is that we can live and work here and much of it goes unnoticed or we just change our route to avoid the planned protest areas. There are still displays of resistance that happens every day, but now that the weekend is over, it seems to have settled down a bit.