Oman, that's awesome!: It's farm time!

Last weekend I had the unique experience of going with my family to their farm, about a half-hour drive away. I must say it doesn’t entirely match with the American concept of a farm. Two male Indians live there in this little shack full-time and run the farm, but the family only goes there every few weeks to visit. The farm consists of gardens, a decent-size field for football (soccer), date trees, cows, two bulls, and about fifteen goats. A couple months ago, in fact, the family held a bull fight there where two bulls simply attacked each other. They showed me a few videos on their phones… too bad I missed out on that!

This was a strictly men-only gathering today though, all in all about forty of us. We arrived shortly after noon and a few guys started cooking rice and meat on a stick (like shish kebab) over a fire. We then ate a huge meal. Again, one of my highlights of the week… for obvious reasons. Then eighteen of us divided into teams and played football for a couple hours. I suppose that’s one of the neat things about having a really large family network – being able to have some good quality football teams. After that, we swam in a 10x10 ft. basin to cool off and then returned back to the house. I had a blast getting to know some people a bit better and having a grand time playing football – certainly qualifies for my fun and interesting experience of the week!