The Saudi’s Show their Money!!!! KKIM/DDC

A line of U-Haul rental trucks sit in downtown Rochester Wednesday. The trucks were rented by members of a Saudi Arabian delegation in Rochester while Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was getting a medical checkup at Mayo Clinic.Elizabeth Nida/Post-BulletinRating:

WOW! Are those U-Haul’s full of 20’s?

Saudi spending eases Rochester economic woes
Associated Press
November 22, 2008
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Rochester officials say members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family spent enough money during their visit this week to remedy the area’s economic woes for the year.
Estimates of their spending ranged from $1 million to $2.5 million during an eight-day visit.
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz arrived in Rochester on Nov. 15 for a check up at the Mayo Clinic. He was accompanied by at least five Saudi princes and hundreds of others.
The king left Wednesday, but some members of his group remain in Rochester.
Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Brad Jones says the royal family’s spending should remedy a slight economic downturn that started in Rochester in October.
Mayo Clinic has not acknowledged the king’s visit.
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