If you would like to be on standby for rooms at the Omni Houston Hotel, please sign up for the Omni Houston Hotel Standby List. As rooms become available at the Omni, we will offer them to reunion registrants in the order in which they have signed up for this standby list. There are no guarantees we can accommodate everyone on the standby list. We recommend you make alternative arrangements for your stay which can be canceled if/when a room becomes available at the Omni.
Another Dhahran Women's Group cookbook to share!: "Crossroads, A Collection of Recipes." Published in 1992, it is a tribute to the cultural melting pots that were our Aramco communities and contains brief chapters of herbs, spices, and their history. From the forward:
"We have all traveled many roads in order to arrive at the Crossroads in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Hence, there is much heritage and tradition behind all the culinary delights included in this cookbook. You will find unique and unusual recipes from around the world in Crossroads. Whatever the regional origin of the foods, the recipes in Crossroads will bring you the delights of new tastes and new personalities. The recipes included here are for foods with mood, personality and season."
"We have all traveled many roads in order to arrive at the Crossroads in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Hence, there is much heritage and tradition behind all the culinary delights included in this cookbook. You will find unique and unusual recipes from around the world in Crossroads.
Whatever the regional origin of the foods, the recipes in Crossroads will bring you the delights of new tastes and new personalities. The recipes included here are for foods with mood, personality and season."
Download your copy and enjoy a delicious trip down memory lane!
Sahtein! Saha wa aafiyah!
Good health! Bon appetit!
Click on the cookbook cover to download (PDF).
ABI's database shows that there are 976 registered Aramco Brats with a Texas address and over 350 in the Greater Houston area alone! That’s a lot of Brats who simply need to drive or take a cab to the reunion over Memorial Day weekend.
Now California boasts the 2nd largest Brat population with 696 registered addresses for Brats. Good news because right now there are round trip airfares from LA to Houston for around $255 and roundtrip airfares from San Fran for around $350.
Florida comes in third with 321 Brat residents, and it looks like round trip airfare from Miami to Houston, for example, can be bought for around $300. Not bad, right? We promise your investment will pay off in priceless memories! Why not sign up for air fare alerts or buy those plane tickets today?
Although Saudi Aramco might not like the current dip in oil prices…gas and air fares are certainly cheaper which will ensure that Brats can get down/up/over/south/north/east or west to Houston!
There are many other hotels within a 3-mi radius of the Omni Houston, including a La Quinta Inn and several extended stay places such as Hampton Inn and Sheraton Suites. For your convenience, we've provided a map below with hotel listings. Zoom in and click on a specific hotel to check pricing for Memorial Day weekend.
Commissary Highlights Bulletin for February 10, 1979: Avocados hit the commissary shelves, so, of course, you will want to know how to grow your very own "pot-plants," and a recipe for English Country Meatballs.
Once again, we have a special, online raffle for reunion attendees...with 3 different prizes! Only those who register for the reunion by the early registration deadline (3/31/2015 CDT) are eligible to participate in the drawing to win:
1. 4 complimentary room nights at the Omni Hotel*
2. $150 Mokara Spa gift certificate
3. $100 Omni gift card
Tickets are $5 each. We will pull a name for each prize, so be sure to buy at least 3. You could win more than one prize!
Please be sure to read all rules carefully!
* Prizes must be used during the reunion. If you win the room nights and are only staying for 3 nights, you will receive 3 complimentary nights.
Please be advised that the Omni is almost completely full, particularly Saturday night. We will be offering some overflow options, but, in the meantime, we ask those of you who will not be able to attend as planned but who still hold Omni rooms to please cancel your reservations and release those rooms to other Brats.
Shukran!
Please read all instructions carefully and make note of early registration deadline and any cancellation dates.
Early registrants will be eligible for a special raffle offer. Stay tuned for details.
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