Everyday, except for some Fridays, approximately 3,000 workers travel two and from the construction sites outside our apt. building. The buses line up on the street down below our living room window and at the end of the day the men run from the side of the building to catch their transportation back to the labor camps where they live. Most men carry a tin bucket that is packed with their lunch for the day, provided by their employer, who also provides their living quarters in the camp. You can just see the bucket in the 3rd picture I posted. Usually this mass movement of people happens 4 times a day. Morning and evening shifts arriving and leaving. We try to avoid trips to the car around those times. When we first moved here, being novices at the whole thing, we nearly got run over a couple of times. It's also difficult to park when the 20 buses that park outside, line up on the street. :) In this picture you only see a few as they also park around the side of the building. The two construction sights have been in process the whole time we have lived here. One is right oustide our bedroom window. The other, the skyscraper, which will one day be a huge a mall, hotel and apartments and whatever..is on the other side of our building.When my brother in law, Don, was here, I would catch him standing at the window watching the laborers come and go. We have gotten used to the sight, but at first it was pretty fascinating.
Mike and Robert are on their first Boy Scout campout right now. It will be peaceful and beautiful An undeveloped beach only an hour from here. Can't wait to hear about it. :)
