Day at the Park

Here are some things you can do at the park...

Enjoy nature.Read the signs.

Take the grandchild out for some fresh air .
Enjoy the traditional architecture.Interact with the local statues.


Face East and...
...bow to Allah

Play instruments and listen to...

traditional harp and...

flute music.

Enjoy the flower gardens.

Ride the Ferris wheel.

Carousel

Play games

Take a nap.

Talk with friends.

Do a little fishing.

Go dancing or have a party.
Use the exercise machines.
Play cards.

Escape city life.

South Mountain

Hello from the Mountains!

This is beautiful South Mountain.Here are views from a huge grassland up in the mountains where nomadic people and horsemen live. Of course I went with friends! It was an amazing day and you could see several mountain ranges kilometers away.It felt like you were on top of the world.

After taking a bus up to the grassland, we rode a horse cart up a near by canyon.It was almost like Christmas with the freshly fallen snow and pine trees all around us.The mountains were very majestic.Others chose to ride their own horses up the canyon.Here are some of the locals saddling up.Little friendly chit chat with the horses with the locals wait on the tourists! Here is your local 'cowboy'!Up the canyon we went to see a waterfall. Along the way we got to see some of the nomadic people's houses. Most of the people who live and work in these mountains are Kazak. Kazak's and Mongols both have a history of being nomadic and live in the round shaped houses called yurts.

Whether your house is round or square or on the 20th floor some things don't change!
Imagine living surrounded by all this beauty!

The fall leaves were putting on a show as well.

Oil Town

This is the oil town in the desert I recently visited.Looking towards the surrounding mountains you can see the oil industry at work.Fields of pump jacks reminded me of road trips from my childhood.This is Black Oil Mountain. Here is where the first oil was found in this area. The 'mountain' its self is made of oil as the oil here has seeped up from the ground below. In the summer time the asphalt like surface is soft and black with warm oil. All across Black Oil Mountain you can find pools of crude oil that have come up from the ground.If you look closely you will find bubbles in most of the pools that are caring natural gas up to the surface. This statue was erected in honor of the minority man who first found the oil and used it as fuel carrying it buckets of it to his neighboring towns so that the people would have heat. Here are some pictures of me and the pump jacks. Makes me just a little bit homesick for the Texas panhandle!