Who out there loves to read Francine Rivers books? I do! One of my favorites is her book The Last Sin Eater. I have always thought her books would make great movies and finally someone has done it. My roomate returned home yesterday and brought with her a stack of new movies - yeah! The one I am most excited about and watched last night is The Last Sin Eater, based on Rivers book. You all need to see it and tell others about it. We need to support quality movies that share Truth, so here is my effort. Now I can't say it was the best movie ever but this isn't a critique so I will leave it at that. I may be way behind the times and you all already know about this movie but if not I hope you can find it. It is definately a book worth reading and I enjoyed watching it on the screen. I haven't read the book too recently but what I remember the movie stayed pretty close the the original. Letha

Picture Time! I thought I was going to be alone all week, but PTL I have been blessed by a visit from friends. They came and stayed for three days and it was wonderful. They didn't let me cook but made all my favorite local dishes. Here are two of the many pictures we took. I am the shiny white face - my friends love my pale face they said I shined like the moon. I let them know that wasn't a compliment for me. The second picture is during my cooking lesson. I wasn't much help but had lots of fun trying. Enjoy Letha

The price of eggs...
So I have been thinking about this post since someone commented awhile back on the price of a papaya. I know living here is a lot cheaper than most places around the world but I wondered how the price of things compares to where you are.
So today I went to the local vegtable stand and bought
1 kilo carrots
1/2 kilo tomatoes
1/2 kilo onions
1 kilo bananas
A large handful of bisbas
And my total came to about 330 Riyals
I bought eggs last night and paid 200 Riyals for a dozen
I bought a new phone battery a few weeks ago and paid 1500 Riyals
I took the bus across town and paid 30 Riyals
Just paid the electric bill (it was extremely high because we are using a/c) 14000 Riyals
So how does this compare with what you are paying? The exchange rate stays about 198 riyals to the dollar.
Letha