Desert Safari

This blog will be relatively short since I'm waiting on pictures from some people *cough cough Daniel*.  We spent Friday in the desert which sounds terrifying, but it really was pretty cool! We were supposed to go dune bashing, but sadly some people weren't allowed to, so we went dune "riding."  Regardless, we went over sand dunes in Land Cruisers in a crazy fashion, blasting Shakira in a fully-ACed vehicle.

Typical picture with camel in the desert

When we got to our camping site, the first thing most of us did was head out to a huge dune west of us.  We took turns hopping on a snowboard to go sandboarding.  I was terrified, to say the least, but I hopped on anyway and took it for a spin. Super smooth sailing until the end...I didn't wipe out, but I didn't land in the most gracious of fashions.  The board rewarded me with a bruise that I'm sure will be quite lovely in the morning.

Lakshmi and me!

A lot of people got stung by jellies (read: boys splashing around haphazardly knowing full well what lie in the water), so we clung to the shore.  I looked around for the nearly invisible little suckers to avoid the welts that many of my friends were getting.  I seriously considered touching the top of one to see if Finding Nemo lied to me or not, but I chickened out at the end.  I decided I didn't want my own little Squishy...he could stay on the beach.

The night ended with a wonderful barbecue and coffee underneath a myriad of stars.  Seriously, I haven't seen such beautiful landscape since our ROTC group went to Lake Whitney (Joshua Vaughan you still owe me a football btw :P).  You had to move away from the tents a little bit to really see the Milky Way, but the pitch black night over the khaleej was magical.  Hopefully I'll get the chance to go again soon so I can pay attention to the sunset this time!