Happy Birthday Matt

Today was Matt's birthday. He didn't really make any plans but I did. I made arrangements for him to have the day off so we could spend it together.
I got up early and went for a run-my 3rd run since we came here. It was a good 3.5 miler and it was hard. I ran back against the wind. I'd wanted to take Matt on a paddling adventure but no, it was too windy. 
So we went on a hiking adventure instead. We did the Sa'al stairs. They're serious stairs that you can't just prance up, at least we didn't. ,
The top of the hike is cut off in the picture above. We saw one man running down and many, many goats.

The flowers of Oman are having their moment. There are so many small unfriendly looking flowers who have been given more than their usual yearly amount of rain and are flourishing.
This is the back side of the hike. That white speck at the top is a giant something or other like a satellite maybe?
Hot and sweaty we lunched at Matt's choice-Begums. Always delicious. It was really a treat to be able to spend the day together. That night I had our friends drop by and surprise him. We had his favorite Sour Cream Choc-chip cake and also some Strawberry Shortcake. Lauren and Mo, Kim and Mike, Cameron and Rachel and John Ware and family came by and had cake with us and visited. I hope he enjoyed his special day.

 

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