Bowling parties and Iftars

Some of the traditional food

one of the guards wifes made these they are stuffed potatoes!! there so much work!

Traditional rice

The annual festival of Ramadon, which is a month of fasting for the Muslims, was during September. During this month Muslims don’t eat from sunrise to sunset. The meal at sundown is called Iftar and is usually a huge celebration. People often celebrate it every night with family and friends. Our family decided to through an Iftar for our Guards. Our housekeeper and her sister spent the day making delicious, traditional Ramadon food. The guards really appreciated it and we all had a good experience.

Nick's wonderful cake

Nick bowling :P

Make a wish!!

Nick turned 10 on September 25, 2008!! There are no more Watkins’ kids who have a one-digit age! Nick had his party at a bowling alley in Maadi. Mom made him a wonderful bowling cake. Well of course, because this is Egypt, not everything went according to plan :P. One of our friends was nice enough to take us to the bowling alley, we are still waiting for our car to get here, but he misunderstood and took us almost 20 miles in the wrong direction!! Nick ended up arriving 30 min late for his own birthday party!! Next the place that mom was going to get the food from wasn’t open like they said they would be. She asked and they said they would open in 5 min, well 45 min later it still wasn’t open and people were getting hungry. Dad went to the Chilis next door and got chips and salsa and drinks to hold the kids over till we could get the pizza but they took 30 min to get the sodas to us!! We then had to order pizza but of course that took an hour and the pizza got there right when the parents came to pick up the kids.