Friday night's social adventure was a trip to the Kuwait Towers-the photographic "symbol" of Kuwait. As the official website says, it is "Located on the Arabian Gulf in the area of sharq. Kuwait Towers is one of the main tourist attractions in the State of Kuwait. The towers were designed by a Swedish company and executed by a Yugoslav company. They were built in 1975 and inaugurated in 1979. The plates that cover the balls are fifty five thousand in number. They are made of Chinese steel painted in eight different colors."
I think it's a telecommunication tower..either that or a water tower.
I believe it could also be said that this is the emotional symbol of the country. When Saddem Hussein and his troops were here in 1990-91, they tried to demolish this symbol on their "way out of town". Surrounding the middle level are pictures of the destruction that the towers incurred. The fact that this structure remained largely intact is a continual tangible symbol to the strength of the American support. I didn't read these words in any guidebook, just what I've sensed.
The whole experience is similar to being up in the Sears tower in Chicago where you can walk 360 degrees and see the city from a birds eye view. As we were looking at the city (it was now dark) David remarked that it's amazing for such a large city ( 3 million people) there aren't many lights on. I reminded him that there are huge parts of this city that are still desert!
We've had the chance to drive around quite a bit over the past month (yes it's a month already!) Friday night in our excursions, we saw a pretty bad accident involving three vehicles. I don't think everyone made it. It was at that point, I put my head down and said to our driver (the BFF Vonda) "how about you drive and I'll pray".
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