Robert and I were driving to visit friends in Education City. (This is where several western universities are located..Texas A&M Qatar, Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Virginia Commonwealth and others. A cool area here in Doha.) We drove passed this building that reminds me of the Sydney Opera House. A very pretty building and as it turns out it is going to be a hospital.
Out front were these sculptures...13 to be precise. Large bronze shapes. But I could not make them out...Until we got closer. Yes. It's a baby. Oh wait, next to it was a baby earlier in the pregnancy. And earlier. Oh my gosh...Yes. The entire 9 months in separate huge sculptures. Let me frank here... I am pro life to the core. I have been most of my life...but these are the strangest things. And maybe it is just that they are huge and on display in a country where kissing is removed from movies. I don't know, but if they had added one more statue at the front of these things it would have to be censored.
So, yes. We are pretty comfortable living in the Middle East, but yes, there are still things that sneak up on us and surprise us. We all laughed though at the timing of our discovery. It was the day before Sallie's 19th birthday. We were missing her a lot that day... So it was fun to laugh over the strange sightings. :) OH and yes. It is a maternity hospital. but still....
