okay good morning you just got to the
airport gonna be traveling to Jeddah
today taking a quick plane make it's
like an hour 45 minutes and the
adventure continues
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getting on the plane now
a lot of religious pilgrims on this
heading for Omaha so it's not Hajj right
now it just takes place during the
summer at a specific time but it's a
boom bra which is a shorter mini house
you can take place okay made it to
Jeddah and someone was a new friend of
mine was kind enough to pick me up from
the airport
his name is mullet and he's been very
kind to help me out here in Jeddah so
he's right now we just got to his car
now he's going to pray in the mosque
here at the airport for like 10 minutes
but it's the third prayer of the day out
of five so he just brought me here and
now he's gonna go do that and then we're
gonna head off to Jeddah and check it
out just had someone come up to me and
recognize me from Sultan's snapchat so
first first sighting in the wild okay
this is what did I say that right
yeah okay it's okay thank you
so uh he's come to pick me up at the
airport it's very nice I used to be
called my friend
oh good is my friend now so thank you
okay so now we're going together yeah
big plans I promise you you will never
ever forget you two okay yeah all right
let's do it
here we go yeah so I have made it to my
hotel in Jeddah called the Red Sea
palace right near Al Balad which is the
old town the old city area with the
coral houses and everything so very
excited to see that my friend mullet is
waiting we're gonna we're gonna go
explore a little bit and I think we're
seeing another movie tonight so check
out the view
the water from outside the room here so
you can see it's right on the water so
pretty good alright so we're gonna head
out and think maybe go get some coffee
of course and I'm not sure what else but
we'll see
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so it's Maghreb huh yes which is the
fifth prayer of the day no oh yeah
fourth for the second to last yeah and
then at the end is uh what's the last
one
hey Ashley okay
okay this is Achmed right okay
a friend of moth and you're not a
debriefing okay so we just finished the
prayer and now we're going to walk to
the mall okay so what'd you say before
there's two two things everywhere in
Saudi right at mosques Paul's and
mosques yeah
so we're gonna get some coffee and then
see the gentleman with Matthew
McConaughey all right and how long have
the movies been open here in in jeddah
powerful happy happy it's like six
months that's when it became legal
after one year from becoming becoming
legal okay and it was MBS yeah MBS from
started all that changes changes yeah a
lot of stuff is changing
okay we just got out of the movie it's
pretty good yeah the gentlemen yeah it's
interesting they kind of cut a part of
the movie when it got a little sexual so
there's a little bit of you could tell
like the scene just kind of cuts off and
goes to the next part which I think
that's interesting for people from
outside Saudi to here
now we're gonna we're just walking
around the mall and we're gonna go try
what's it called again see it see it it
yeah okay like I have a Nigerian and
African food do that inshallah we're
stopping to look at the fountain huh
yeah well the fountain endure in the
world
yeah and is this the corals yeah this is
part of the corner she's part of the
cone is part of it okay okay yeah this
view is pretty sweet
do you know how tall it goes very tall
yeah there we go that's the right answer
for all the kids hanging out here the
family is another interesting thing this
is uh I think kind of like a mobile
mosque this carpet is here it looks like
the inside of the mosque it actually
like rolls out of this thing here so you
can crank it and unfurl the mosque
I'm gonna call it the to go mosque and
the weather right now is perfect okay
see we're talking about a prayer time
and what was what were you telling me
before any any brave before you should
be anything yeah
you should do something called voodoo
you should wash your hands face and sum
all that stuff so every time you every
time you pray you're supposed to do yeah
Oh clean okay still clean but if you
anything like that you should go and do
it
okay good information so this is Al
Balad or now okay we're deep in the when
you call it the sound Eva this is it
okay what is this this is the African
bee and what's it called I see you see
it oh okay
cool Salam alaikum
what what me me where am i from America
yeah oh thank you thank you thank you
sue Quran chop chop chop
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I fit right in
so this is the real local local food
closest thing the street food to be
found here so far this is real local huh
it's from Nigeria okay I'm from USA New
York City great New Orleans huh it's one
place yeah pulls it did you like it
what's it if I was in Italy
oh just tourism thank you I'm happy to
be here I love Saudi Arabia is it good
yeah my first time
oh yeah yeah you know you don't need
United States better than I do it I
don't know I've never been to any of
those places nice to meet you you think
so yeah you saying the whole place is
maybe talking about what the hell some
white boy from America is doing here the
food is coming soon I think this is the
best kind of experience go deep into the
local culture and neighborhoods and do
as the locals do yeah and I think the
food smells really good so I'm excited
to eat it we got the food what do we
take this bread put it on the basket
okay and then what's this stuff you know
okay good answer it's food not gonna ask
too many questions little lime or lemon
some onion and this meat all chopped up
it's pretty simple
Oh oh it comes in the bags that's cool
okay this is something you don't see a
new in New York this is like really
freezing cold and like some juice of
some kind in the bag here and the straw
tied in I'm gonna try the bag drink here
well that is actually insanely good
it's like a smoothie milkshake like
there's some what like strawberry or
something in there I don't know what it
is
tastes like banana milkshake strawberry
berries some kind of berry wow it's so
cold and refreshing right out of the
back nice okay
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really good there's a good kick to it
really really good so now I'm gonna
throw this camera off and eat a lot
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