My First Visitor

Sorry for short blog break. Things over here really picked up over the past couple weeks. My good friend from college, Lara Pringle, visited Qatar recently, so I took off work for a few days. We spend half the time in Doha and half in Dubai (the Las Vegas of the Middle East). I have lots of fun pictures from our trip that I'll post on the website ASAP. One of the funniest things that happened was when Lara attempted to use the bathroom at the mall. She located the bathroom and noticed that the other women were removing their shoes before entering. It seemed to be an odd custom but she went with it. Well, pretty soon after entering the room she quickly discovered that, in fact, it was a Muslim prayer room! Oops. A Muslim woman noticed Lara's hesitancy to enter and grabbed her hand to encourage her along. Lara had to confess that she was confused and thought it was the restroom. As you can imagine, the Muslim woman got a good kick out of that! Anyways, here is a picture of us eating at the local Hezbollah restaurant. We figured that would provide a good story for her to bring home to Texas. :-) The food is incredible!