Around Town

We went to the mall for some after-Christmas-style shopping (though no big sales here) for Dave to exchange one of the gifts I got him. Most stores seem like they don't let you return things here, only exchange, and this store only gave 7 days for that! Definitely different. Anyway, our camera was working this morning when I played with it again... yahoo!! So I took a few pictures (from the car again, sorry) of what things look like here.

Headed toward Manama's city center

One of the malls

The twin financial towers - one of the city's most prominent features

The Pearl Monument

Bahrain used to be a huge place for pearling; they still don't allow cultured pearls to be sold on the island.

This "boat" and a few others are scattered around to "beautify" the place. Interesting.