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This weekend about 60,000 people are expected to be coming back to Qatar. Last weekend there were about 45,000. I am pretty glad we came early as the lines at the airport immigration desks will be miserable. Oh and the parking has pretty much disappeared. Not fun, even on a normal weekend. Apparently there are some changes being made. No one knows when they will be done. Kind of like the new airport...Supposed to be done by December, just not sure which year. :)
My goal this summer was to make sure Sallie was ready to start her community college classes in Dallas, get a license, and prepared for life back in America. She is living with some dear friends of ours who visited us in Abu Dhabi several years ago, and have been great friends over the years. Although we didn't have time to spare...We did finish what we needed to do. Sallie is a legal driver(got her license the day Robert and I flew out), she is moved into her new home, enrolled in college and has her own bank account. Victory!
We saw our Kansas family and celebrated our niece's wedding. I drove to Houston to see where Russell has been living the last year and see his friends. Met my sister in Lubbock for a visit with Ryan, where we got to see where he works and she got to see his house. Mike and I even got a few days in the Colorado mountains with our good friends, Tom and Bonnie. (Tom is our hero as he spent the summer teaching Sallie to drive...Everyone needs a Tom. )
As always, the blessing of catching up with so many friends and family was the highlight for me. Every time we reconnect with our loved ones we are reminded of how blessed we are with amazing people in our lives. Thanks to everyone we saw, everyone we stayed with, and everyone we hugged and laughed with...WE had a great summer!
