Power Shopping and a New City - Abqaiq This morning I went into Khobar with a mission: Find an Arabian style coffee pot. I took the 8:35 bus in and had between 9:00 and 10:30 to do a bunch of power shopping. I had scene a shop that looked interesting, but when Glyn and I were in Khobar on Thursday, everything closed at noon. So now was my last opportunity to buy some souvenirs of my trip. The motto in Khobar apparently is “buy more and you get a larger discount.” I figured that if I bought the whole store, the discount would be 100% and I’d get everything for free. Well, not quite. However, I did find my coffee pot (and bought another one as well). I also bought an Aladdin’s lamp, the kind you
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