Dinner on the roof of the guest house.

There are 15 apartments at the guest house and most of us have been living there for at least a month. I decided it was time for us all to have a social evening so sent out an email to everyone I could remember from the bus in the mornings and said bring a plate of food to the roof at 7pm on Wednesday night. I send out a list with all the room numbers and got everyone to put what they were bringing against their room numbers so we could plan some variety.
It was a fantastic night, there must have been at least 50 of us and there was enough food to feed the American troops in the neighbouring countries! There are a lot of Italians here that have worked in Torino, and they were 2 hours late as they were preparing food! And you should have seen it! The top floor of the guest house is like a massive apartment which has been converted into a gym. There is also a kitchen and lounge area with a television and two large balconies. We set all the food out on the bench and walked around like it was a buffet. It’s actually quite pleasant in the evenings, about 30 degrees and there was nice breeze, coming from the open door and the air conditioning. It was a great night and we tried to come up with a name for it, some of the options were, dune bar, sand bar, desert, mirage-a-twa, cush bar, camel hump, and many other desert related names. We are thinking of going and purchasing a number of cushions from the Souqs and going up there more often to lounge around.