Flying girl
"Wow! It's actually quite sturdy!", remarked Peter, who had come down with Phillippa and Isaac to have a look at Kira's new slide. Toys in Yemen are usually very poor quality and fall apart very quickly. China sends all the stuff here that fails safety standards in other countries. We managed to find a good slide, which Kira is enjoying a lot. She was a bit scared by the slide initially when Paul had put it on the steeper setup and she took off on the bump in the middle, so he then moved it down a notch.
Bird poo
In the afternoon, we took Kira to Fun City where there a big playground and she spends about 10 seconds on each activity before running on to the next one. There's a big padded play area, trampolines, swings, seesaws, etc. She boldly ran up the huge inflatable slide and Paul had to run up after her to make sure she didn't get squashed by the masses of Yemeni kids all over it. It's not very slidey, probably because they keep having to clean off the bird poo.
As fresh as it gets
Then we went for Kira's favourite meal- fish. We went to the fish market first, where you can by fish straight from the fishermen by the fishing boat dock. Then we took our fish -2 varieties, called Gahsh and Deirak- to a restaurant which will cook them for you and make a nice sauce and delicious Yemeni bread. The whole thing only cost about £15 between 6 of us!
Half an ice cream each
After fish we went to Lulu's, a place which Kira always notices if we drive by and cries if we don't go in, shouting, "Looloo!, looloo!" Kira's most favourite food of all is there- ice cream. Everyone had half an ice cream because Kira demanded the other half and it was her birthday, after all.
