The bathroom is crazy. You walk into this big square room with 12 sinks, 3 on each wall. There are two doors which lead to hallways which have 6 sinks each. Each hallway has 6 doors which lead to toilet rooms. Inside the toilet rooms are a toilet, a bidet (we use them to store toilet paper, and ANOTHER sink. Thats 12 toilets and 36 sinks - in ONE bathroom!
My other favorite part of the palace is the balcony. There are not too many places to access the balcony, so not many people get to go out there. Fortunately there is a door in the Air Ops office where I sometimes work. It's a huge balcony with large pillars and the buildings around the lake he made are pretty (even though they are run-down). It's quiet and pretty and the birds are always chirpping... just nice. The room my real office is in would be nice too (I heard it used to be Saddam's bedroom) but we put up a bunch of cubicles in there, so it takes away a little :)
The last pictures are ones I found on the internet, but they do the trick. The main room or rotunda has a really pretty chandalier and I have to go up the spiral staircases to the third/top floor to get to my offices (my legs get tired, but it's good for me). The big chair was a gift from Yasar Arafat to Hussein, but that's all I know, I should read the sign next to it sometime.
While I was looking for pictures on the internet I found this! -
There's a pool here! But don't get too excited, we work 7 days a week here at the palace :( and I think I'm the only one who leaves by 6pm, the rest of them stay till the wee hours. I'm sure I'll find one day to sneak away though and scout out the pool (if it does in fact exist).
