Our five year adventure in Doha, Qatar ended June 1, 2012, but the memories will always remain. It's back to Texas where I have decided...Qatar isn't cornering the market on "quirky", as I once believed. Thanks for opening my eyes to the world, Doha!
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Shea (son) and friend, Tonya
thing it brings out is the Photoshop. Would all you "extras" please remove yourselves from my pics?! To read or leave comments, please click on the comments link below. Thanks!
Family is all around...
(me, my mom, and my sis, Regina)
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Living in Qatar, we found out pretty fast where the punctury is. We have a tendency to off road a bit around here due to traffic situations, well, and just for the heck of it. Problem is when when we do that, we take the chance of "puncturing" our tires with errant nails and wire from the ever present construction. You're so smart. I see you've figured out what a
"punctury" is all by your lonesome. I've Googled the word punctury, and I do believe the term is truly an "Only in Doha" one.
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Have I mentioned that I was lucky enough to score a tour of the world famous Al Jazeera News while the kids were in town? Yes, I said Al Jazeera, the one put on the map by Bin Laden himself, but has since been a force to be reckoned with by keeping the Middle East (and the world) abreast of the Arab Spring. No, it's not been the most popular news source in the States, but it's gaining steam. Even Hillary recently gave it the "real news" stamp of approval*. Visiting Al Jazeera is something I've secretly wanted to do since moving to Doha four years ago, so I mercilessly used my kids as pawns and contacted the powers that be to fulfill my dream. Voila, before I knew it, I had a parking pass in hand and an appointed hostess with the mostess to show us the way. She informed me that usually only journalists and news related outlets are afforded tours of the facilities. Wow, my friends really do have "wasta". Impressive. Ok, she may have winked when she said that, but if she did, I missed it. Anyway we made our way around 
the English and Arabic buildings, whizzing in and out of busy news rooms with monitors everywhere imaginable. I was shocked when our guide told me I could take pictures anywhere I wanted, but just no flash in certain areas. Transparency in action...impressed, again. The kids were glad that I used them as bait as we really felt like we were part of history and the future by visiting the origin of Al Jazeera. Oh, and the goody bags were the icing on the cupcake.
Code of Ethics*“viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news… You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”...Hillary R Clinton
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There's just something about leggings underneath a bikini bottom that's downright unflattering. Someone's editor needs to go back to the drawing board. To read or leave comments, please click on the comments link below. Thanks!
West Bay area ~ Doha, Qatar ~ June 3, 2011 To read or leave comments, please click on the comments link below. Thanks!
I loaded up the kids this morning for an early morning airport run. It's not just real often that I see Doha in all its glory at 5:30am with the sun bouncing off the bay. It was a beautiful site, not unlike the beautiful Qatari deserts that we trekked through yesterday on our last day with Shea, Dustin, and Kristi.
Shooting pics through the window of the Land Cruiser
The only thing missing was Kayla :(
Our resident pirate ~ doesn't every family have one? To read or leave comments, please click on the comments link below. Thanks!
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