Main Camp

- Hospital area looks the same; a colorful front exterior has been built though
- Front gates are a bit nicer and built up
- The shanty town right outside of the gates is gone
- The area by the bowling alley and movie theater is modernized a bit. Facades have been put up on the outside, but the arc through which the buses line up in that parking lot area looked much the same.
- The library behind it looks like it got a facelift, but nothing fancy.... still beige
- Ad Duwan building is sooooo the same. The letters are even falling off the beige wall. Remember our school dances in there??
- A few new restaurants are next to the bowling alley... a Tandoori place and an Olive Garden.
- Apparently the best food in town is at the Chuck Wagon at the Hobby Farm. I have not been out there yet.
- Dining Hall looks the same on the outside, but TOTALLY different inside. Neither my mom or I saw anything familiar at all about it. Food is still super cheap. Boo-hoo, they don't have Shrimp Night anymore, but there is a Turkey Night apparently. Jello was still in the same upside down dish molds with a dollop of whipped cream on the side
- The Commissary looked pretty much the same outside and inside. They now have fresh meats, and their Rauch Grapejuice section is tiny. My mom said it used to take up almost an entire aisle (People would use this grapejuice to make their own wine, since alcohol is banned in the country). Over 80% of Dhahran's population is now Saudi, so it makes sense why there is less grapejuice in the supermarket, if you catch my drift. :-)
- The "pork store" is now a flower shop