#bahrain.

Yesterday at the beach I had an awesome day, but I fear my dad won't take me there any more, I seem to be a bad luck charm of some sort.

We got to the beach really early, so we'd enjoy the full day. Now, because we need to be different, we didn't go in the water-y part were all the people are, but decided to go to a more people-less area, which had the added benefit of waves. It was great, up until I asked my dad if there were jellyfish and he said that he had never seen them in Bahrain and reminded me that the ones in Saudi don't sting. So I was ok, for a while, until I spotted what looked like a jellyfish, my dad had of course to go check it out. It turns out that my eyesight is better than his (I wear contacts in the water) and it indeed was the first jellyfish he saw in Bahrain in 8 years. We just moved away from the jelly-demon and enjoyed the rest of our bath, with hawk-francy on the lookout. 

After a bit of a break outside the water, we decided to go back in. After maybe half an hour I saw something, not very far from us, which I really wanted to be a double-coloured-deflated bicycle tyre. It was a snake and it wasn't dead. My dad had of course to go check it out, so he walked a bit closer, the snake lifted its tiny head and started wriggling towards us, that's when he realised it was a snake and I joked him not on those things. We run towards the shore, cos if there is something that we've learnt in Saudi is: you never see snakes, but if you do stay clear of them. When we reached the shore my dad thought it was time to share a piece of news:

Can't believe I've been here 15 years and I've never seen a water snake. A lot of people told me about them, but I've never seen one.

People told me that their mouth is pretty small and they can only bite between your fingers, so keep your fingers closed together.

And that is when I asked him to move towards the more people-y area, which we did, and were of course thoroughly disturbed by the local faun of chavy youth playing with water scooter close to us. Despite the day's adventures, I had a great day and a great time.

After sea time, when I realised I might have been sunburnt we left the beach and went towards the cinema, just to find out that the cinema was packed and we had to come up with other plans, for we couldn't get back at home until about 8ish due to manifestations against the King. We had two whole hours of doing NOTHING! So my dad came up with a great idea, he took me to see this really posh place called Amwaj Island. Amwaj is a posh place where posh people can buy a house and park their car on one side of it, cross the house, and pick up their boat on the other. It's a sort of small modern-looking Venice.