Curled up in bed while watching cooking lessons on Youtube, I decided to spend the rest of the day learning new desserts then tidying up the house later. The kids are in Al Khobar for a chess tournament and this could be my most awaited me-time. But as I reached for the phone to check for my children's messages, I saw a friend's post on Al Janadriyah Festival. "Forget it, you've been there more than a couple of times to memorize what's in Gate 3 or in Gate 5", I said to myself. But F has been asking me about it since the first week of December so I sent him a message to ask if he wants to check it out because I don't. Winter has this hibernating effect on me. And as expected, of course, he wanted to. He's an avid visitor. He loves that festival. And to make the story and argument short, I agreed to go. And was I wrong for hesitating! There were lots of people and the parking lot was full to the edge of a ditch! We were so worried that our car mig...