They had a huge room of scale models depicting scenes of the war with Iraq

There were several galleries of photos .... each devoted to a different  "theme".  These came from the  "Oil Fire"  gallery.

The photo on the  "left" is an aerial view of the extensive  oil fires.

Bomb Damage

Reconstruction

Bomb Damage

New Roads ,

Reconstructed

Shoreline

&

Sports Park

( taken from a

revolving

restaurant )

Mall & Marina near our hotel

Roy went "belt shopping"   ......

.... and I headed here.       "Somebody"  told me I didn't need one.

I wasn't "allowed" to have one of these either.   I am soooo not taking him shopping with me any more.

Nooooo ..... Roy isn't uncomfortable about being one of the few Americans in a local Arab market.

He just automatically morphs into his  "fight or flight" stance whenever he gets near anything that looks like a shop.