Qatar Can do Why cant NZ???

Follow the link to see what is happening with the Qatar Metro...
Come on NZ time to join on in....
We just need some oil money...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/11/qatar-.html

Sago for pudding...

This is for you grandma.
Jenny did a bit of cooking. Was mint as... I even had enough for breakfast...
It was wonderful.

Oh yeah it is also Movember so I am representing a good old tash, shows well with the light.

Mark playing hockey again.

Yeah Marks in the paper again... This time in Qatar with ‘Vodafone Doha Hockey Club’.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=October2009&file=Local_News2009101403714.xml

A trip to the Souqs

The souqs are like a market where you can do some of your shopping. They are mostly where you can buy the touristie stuff.

A Visit to Souq Waqif - Doha Tribeca Film Festival - Video detail

A trip to the tailors...

This sort of how the shops work over here. There is always a Philippiano or Indian working in the shops. This is a very friendly Qatari local. They are not always this nice especially when driving. This is their nation dress.

http://www.dohatribecafilm.com/doha-365/video-detail/item_200118.htm

Virtual School Week

Well this week at school we have no students...
Well we do but they are not allowed to come to school and have to do it virtually/ online. The ministry of Education (Qatar) has decided that it is too unsafe to come to school??? I don't know how that works when we have already been at school for 4 weeks??? Oh well this is totally a new experience. We have to put all the students work online.
We will see what happens next week...

Greece- Athens and Santorini

Greece
Athens and Santorini

What a break…
We had a couple of friends join us on this trip, James, Rich, Stacy and Jessica + Jen and I. We first spent a couple of days hanging out in Athens. We did the hop on hop off bus tour to see all/ well the main sights (well that we wanted to). Where we got a whole lot of photos, which you will see below. Another highlight was the wonderful breakfast that we had the the hotel... Even Bacon.. We all walked around and checked out the area where we were staying. I even did a couple of geocaches... (rude not too).

Then we flew over to Santorini (Oia). We had a lovely little house, which was carved into the side of the hill. He did a lot of relaxing there. A lot of sleeping, laying in the sun (shopping for Jen) reading books, the typical holiday things…
Then my highlight of the trip was when we went out on a Catamaran for the sunset cruise. You would have loved this dad. (A 50ft Lagoon Cat). You can see the photos… A really nice time where we got to swim at the hot springs and then snorkel around the little bays (the used to be volcano). Totally wonderful!!! One high point was that we had only our friends on the boat….
Then we flew back to Athens and then back on to Doha.

We are starting to count the weeks until we get to go home for a holiday and a wedding.
Athens

Santorini