We are here.

We are finally here. We got here early afternoon today, Tuesday, July 31,2007. We were supposed to be here yesterday, but due to a thunderstorm in Miami, our flight was canceled and we had to rearrange our flight plans. I felt like we were on "Amazing Race" as we tried to finagle our way onto a flight out of Miami the first night. We somehow secured a spot on an 11:00pm flight. We ended up spending two nights on airplanes instead of one. The kids were troopers and didn't complain. Fortunately, ExxonMobil flew us first/business class and we were able to take advantage of the cushy lounge areas in the airports complete with snacks and showers. We flew Houston to Miami, Miami to London, London to Dubai, Dubai to Doha.

After arriving at our home (villa) and looking around a bit. Bill and I decided to take a nap. When I woke up all 5 of us were asleep in our bed.

We went to the mall this evening to get the kids a few clothing items, our luggage did not make it to Qatar, yet. It is a really nice, new mall called Villagio. It is designed to look like an open air mall (only indoors) with a river running through it and a full size ice skating rink. We had our first Qatari meal at....

McDonalds!! Bill and I ordered a #1 Big Mac meal and were surprised to find it was a chicken Big Mac. Interesting.