{"id":325,"date":"2009-02-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/02\/its-those-little-things.html"},"modified":"2017-01-06T21:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T04:44:55","slug":"its-those-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/02\/its-those-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Those Little Things…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went out shopping at the “Villagio” mall yesterday with Rose. As expected, I wasn’t able to take that many photos, since we’re advised not to get natives into our photographs.<\/p>\n

I did a little bit of shopping — H&M<\/a> had some pretty head scarves that I could wear as non-head scarves (i.e., around my neck). But mostly it was awesome to window shop with Rose, the stores there cover the entire spectrum of shopping experiences, from Claire’s<\/a> jewelry all the way to Chopard<\/a>! We had a fun lunch at a Mediterreanean lounge, mezzahs and chicken sandwiches. Then we just wandered for the afternoon.<\/p>\n

I got to pay a visit to the Carrefour store<\/a>, which I had mentioned previously<\/a> is a French-owned “hypermart” chain, like Walmart. No, like Super Walmart! So I browsed the grocery section and came across something I hadn’t had since I got here…<\/p>\n

Orange juice!<\/p>\n

For some reason, the juice selection at the dining facilities has been lacking. They have one of those from-concentrate dispenser machines that sometimes works, and the one time I successfully got juice out of it…the juice was brown.<\/em> Ew?<\/p>\n

You can buy shelf-stable juice (i.e., not in the refrigerated section) at the BX, but at Carrefour, they had full-fledged dairy, meats, produce, etc. I decided I’d pick up a carton of fresh orange juice.<\/p>\n

That was harder than I thought. The juices were mostly blends of mango, strawberry, apple, pineapple, lemon and orange juices. They all seemed delicious, but I was on a mission.<\/p>\n

And then I found it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 02 17 Villagio_BilingualSigns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Oops…let me turn the carton around for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From 2009 02 17 Villagio_BilingualSigns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Jackpot! I was a good girl and only took one carton, though I was tempted to get about 10 of them! I love orange juice — especially the super-pulpy stuff. The rest of the family prefers the less-pulp kind (to quote Dave: “I don’t want to chew my orange juice”), so I usually enjoy super-thick juices when I’m on my own.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed the price: 14 Qatari Riyals. That came to about $4.25 for the 1\/2 gallon carton!<\/p>\n

Phew!<\/p>\n

But I don’t care — I have my OJ and today I’ve enjoyed to nice 8 oz. glasses (okay, plastic cups) of the liquid sunshine!<\/p>\n

One of the things I did take pictures of today were the signs for many of the western companies as translated into Arabic. In fact, visit the original photo album <\/a>and you can play the “what American company is it?” game with some of the signs…<\/p>\n

I might be tempted to sneak in one more glass — er, cup — of juice before I head to sleep this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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