Last week the weather was oh so very nice – highs in the mid-80’s, lows in the low 70’s with a nice gentle breeze blowing in from the sea. But this week? Spectacular, dahling!
Ten degrees lower all the way around. Just as pleasant as it possibly could be. The locals say that this has been an unusually mild August as I think they would expect it to be in the 90’s this time of year, excuse me 34C. We told them thank you very much.
But, enough of my weather babbling. Picture above is the view from my hotel window. As you can see it’s definitely a metropolitan scene – all the highrises are apartment buildings – that’s where everyone in the city lives (1.9 million – not all in those few buildings!) except for those in the slums. And their slums are very wretched. I may have mentioned before, but all generations of families live together. If our family lived here, however, Cindy and I would still be empty nesters. Kristin and Nathan would be living with the Fays in their apartment, as would Lauren and Scott. Any little bambinos may require additional rooms to be added to the apartment house, which they do this. It seems the younger generation would like to change this (imagine that!), but this is story for future day.
One of the guys, Parvin, his family has a villa out in the country and all their family lives out there in the summer. In a couple of weeks when school starts they will be moving back into their apartment house in the city.
One other item that can be noted in the picture above – is how clear the air is. The sky has been bright blue with no evidence of smog. Houston and Dallas should be so fortunate.
There’s always more, but that is all for now.
Just re-read. Mistake - Lauren and Scott would be living with Scott's folks. My bad.
ReplyDeleteThe Bahners house in Norman would currently contain Rich, Kelli and the kids; Josh, Jennifer and Drew with the future addition of Josh's and Drew's spouses and the subtraction of Jennifer. They would be annexing their neighbor's house. :)
And as much as they love their kids - I think they would be moving to some country that doesn't do this!
Thanks for the clarification, although I think I went into momentary cardiac arrest mid-way through the sentence that by the time I got to the end of the sentence I welcomed additional coinhabitants in our Bakuian house.
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