Today was the first day back at school and the first really early start since before Ramadan… our little robot alarm clock starts up at 5am. The only real positive to this is we are greeted by freshly brewed coffee… we managed to find one of those drip filter coffee makers with the timer on one of our many early shopping trips… it is put to very good use.
On the subject of shopping… most of the break was taken up with various little shopping adventures here and there (and also a lot of work from Kerry… catching up, preparation, etc).
City Center with the ice skating rink in the bottom left corner
Last Tuesday we headed off to City Centre, which we hadn’t been to since we got here. Lots to see and do across all the levels of what is one big shopping complex. We seem to pick up bits and pieces on each of our little adventures and our home is slowly feeling a little more homely. This time it was a very nice Iranian carpet/door surround thing from a little booth on the ground floor… plus some rather nice little wooden Abaya dolls plus various other little bits and pieces.
One of the many things for children in City Center... Ashur loved running and climbing around in here!
Thursday night we headed back into town to walk around the souqs… spent time looking through the old souq area with is looking rather nice and traditional now after all the work they have been doing. There was even a guy with a donkey, but Ashur couldn’t be encouraged to go for a ride. Also went for our first walk around the gold souq… gold everywhere… store windows dripping in the stuff. All very impressive and I know it only added to Kerry’s gold bling desire! Even saw the falcons with their little helmets covering their eyes, sitting on outside on perches waiting to be sold. The one thing that was a shame is it is looking like all the prices for the souvenir sort of things all seem to have gone up… or maybe we are just becoming “local” and know where to get better bargains! At the end of the day we are here long enough to wait out the whole Asian Games thing, and make the most on the overstock and decreased prices once it and the associated workers, athletes and tourists all depart Qatar.
...our lounge, slowly looking more homely after more shopping adventures...
On Sunday did the Carrefour grocery shop just up the road at Vallagio… major road works between here and there as they rush to finish the main road outside Sports City (or Aspire Zone, or whatever it is called this week), which meant our normal 10 minutes drive home, grew to 45 minutes as we ventured through various diversions and closed roundabouts! Don’t know how long everything will be like this but they only have a month to go to get everything finished… who knows if they will make it or not!
But anyway it is time to get the coffee ready for the morning (got to love technology).
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