What's New At My House

Yesterday the SAEA (Saudi Aramco Employees Association) had what they call the "Fall Mall". This was held in one of the main buildings on camp and various shops from the area were invited to come display their wares for people to shop.

Mike and I decided to go check it out. We had a good time, we kept running into people that we know. There were some people from camp that set up their own booths, we purchased baked goods from a couple of them.

The one thing we did do was spend a great deal of our time there looking at and talking to the owner of the display with carpets. We have wanted to purchase a couple of carpets for the house. You can get much better carpets here than at home at a better price.

We found about 3 or 4 that we liked but couldn't feel good about the price, or were not completely sold. Then the owner started bringing out other carpets for us to see. About the 3rd one that he showed us I fell in love with.

It is a silk carpet with a cotton base. It feels so wonderful under foot. We ended up purchasing this one. It is about 6 feet by 4 feet in size. We currently have it in the entrance to the living room.

We will decide where we want to put it after our shipment comes and arrange our furniture. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of our newest addition to our home.

The reason for the difference in color is the direction the carpet is viewed from. Also from one angle there is more light shining then from the other.