[cmccuist]

Perfume is like a national obsession here. There are stores in the mall that are devoted to perfume alone! There is a cloud of 500 riyal an ounce buoquet as they glide by. No, these women take care of themselves. There is crazy money floating around the eastern province. You get a look at the clothing that they're trying on in the malls and you can see that these women are not bedouins riding a camel into town for a bath and a jar of dates.

These women are dressed underneath all those layers of black! And it seems as if wearing the abaya has freed up the women to get extra freaky underneath! I saw one ad in a window that I couldn't believe for this society. The title of the ad was "Beyond Cleavage!"

I ask my colleagues "if your wife wanders away, how do you find her again?" The answer? CELL PHONES! That's the other national obsession. Every woman here has that mobile bolted to her ear! Unlocked 4G Iphones are going for $1,200 here. Actually, all the phones sold here are unlocked.