My sister arrived mid-January for a visit. We had a much lower-key agenda than her last visit, with the little guy napping and eating all the time. No hiking into the wadi's or swimming into key-hole caves! Instead, we found things closer to home. I came across an interesting event that looked like it had potential... the Horse and Camel Expo. Without knowing much about the event, we headed off.
A side not here about driving in Oman... there are road improvements in progress everywhere, which is a good thing (ask my radiator), but it means where you took a left turn yesterday, you might not be able to today. It's constantly changing, like the sands in the Wahiba Desert. We drove off in the direction of the expo center, I managed to find it, but we were on the wrong side of the road. No left turn. After driving 2/3 of the way back home, finally came across a round-about and were able to turn around and get into the expo center. Much faster driving home, not surprisingly!
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Once at the event, there didn't seem to be much of a formal agenda. But, we did get to see riders from the Royal Calvary, camels from the Royal Camel Corps, the Royal Bagpipe Band and other performers. And, we ran into one of Julia's preschool teacher's in the bathroom who was there participating in a painting contest! All in all, it was an interesting evening!
