Diamond Ring for Gordy

This last Saturday, 25 November 2017, there was a convention for Jewelry of Arabia.  Everything thing in the show glittered with Diamonds. This was a good opportunity to replace Gordy's wedding band, after all it has been 47 years since 21 Feb 1970.  For the 50th anniversary  a gift is gold, the 60th anniversary  gift is diamond but why wait?  Happy Anniversary Dearest.
Photos of the ring is to follow.  At the show we paid wholesale prices which is half of the retail value and we got a discount for buying something on the last day of the convention.  Below is the salesman that gave us a good buy on the ring

That Saturday was a busy day, we went to the Dragon Mall.  This mall is very large and reserved for shots that are for import, mainly from China but there was at least one Korean shop.








Dragon City was constructed on all filled land.  This artist rendition is what will be the final built out.  Right now most of the land is vacant but  there are many apartment buildings and a lot of road construction underway. 

Of course there was a lot of toy stores with all Chinese products.  There were many products but not many items I wanted to buy.









In the mall most of the stores were arranged by the type of products are being sold.  This is one of the many lighting shops.

 The mall must have been 50,000 SF with over 200 stores.  Gordy and I walked down each of the isles and racked up 10,000 steps for that day.








An update on my operation (sleeve surgery) and my weight loss.  I was 244 lbs and my chest at the largest was 56 inches.  I had prediabetes, high blood pressure, water retention and a few other issues that I will not mention here.  I had the sleeve surgery 28 February 2017, nine months ago.
I have was faithful to my diet until I moved from Jeddah to Bahrain.  I have not been over eating but neither was I trying to reach my goal.  Now that Gordy is here, now for 3 months, I am back at eating less than 1000 cal. a day and exercising at least 200 cal. a day.  After my first 3 months since the operation I was down to 208 lbs and my chest was a 46.  I dropped from 44 pants to 38 pants.  In the last week I have dropped down to 202 lbs and hope to break 200 by Christmas time.  I think when i am home in April I will be be down past 195 lbs and in at least 36 pants and maybe 34.  With only half a stomach I do not get hungry and if I do I will eat fruit.
I also hope to have a surgery on my hernia on my chest that is making me look fat when I am not really fat.  I have to loos weight to have the hernia surgery succeed.