all good

I'm definitely getting the hang of things now... I just have so much work to catch up on that I feel like I'm already behind!

Went to Carrefour, a huge WalMart/grocery store thing, yesterday in preparation for an evening trip to the beach. Spent an hour looking for basics, like sugar and milk, because things are placed in such a weird way. I was searching and searching for the eggs near the dairy aisle, because that's where I'm used to seeing them. That's my life right now... trying like crazy to understand and figure things out in a world with which I'm totally unfamiliar.

The good news is that I found the eggs. They were next to the frozen chickens. Duh.

Also baked choco chip cookies for the dinner picnic. Delicious! [lx, I'll have to bring some to Bahrain when I visit as a GCC MC friendship offering]

The beach, on an island within view of Doha (yet surprisingly deserted) was gorgeous. We spent the afternoon and evening swimming in incredibly salty but pleasantly warm water, eating delicious food, including hummus, roast chicken and couscous, laying out on the beach and watching the sun set on Doha. At 10:30 PM, when we thought the motorboat driver had forgotten about us and we were stranded, he showed up in the nick of time and we had a nice trip back to shore.

The plan for tomorrow: send a ton of e-mails, meet with a member to finish InsightXP certification [which I've decided that @US needs to require for exchange], switch our car for an automatic [I think I've given up trying to drive manual], more LC transitioning and picking up Layial, who will be here until the 15th!!