One of my favorite things to do this year has been driving Robert to school. We listen to his good music and we talk. Just the other day he told me that he is afraid he will find car rides, and even driving in the US, kind of boring when he returns there to live. What? You mean no camels bouncing around the back of a truck? or sheep zooming by as we fly thru a death trap roundabout? Yes. Stuff like that. We laughed. Thankful to have made it alive to school one more day.
We run into a lot of things over here that keep it from getting boring. Some things are random and some things are very nice.
Friday, for example, I joined dear friends at the Qatar Exhibition and Convention Center for a concert with the Qatar Philharmonic. It was an all day music festival. Robert joined friends for the 5:30 concert of Star Wars. Ours was at 7:30 with music from Carmen, Boheme, and the 1812 Overture for the finale. A wonderful evening. And randomly, there is a huge spider sculpture that greets you as you enter the very elegant convention center. I could see this maybe gracing the entrance of a Natural History museum but I cannot fathom why it is part of the state of the art Convention center. (Just as I cannot imagine why we have a massive yellow teddy bear, impaled on a lamp post in the middle of the amazingly modern international airport...)
One never knows what interesting things you will see when you go places here in Doha. Like these great chairs where we ate lunch a couple of weeks ago. Or Sponge Bob showing up for dinner at the mall... And Robert was thrilled I convinced him to go see Jungle Book with me last night( I needed a night out and he was available) as we ran into the cast from the new Xmen movie.
