More Atago Lobby Flowers

For those of you who liked the collage of flowers from the Atago Lobby, here are some more. Also, here is another T-Shirt saying (this time from a sweatshirt) worn by a young mother with a child:

Amusement Wagon Style
Little Fairy
Since 2001

If you know what this means, please send me a line. Mata ato de...

The Tent...

This tent was in the lobby of the hotel where I was staying in Doha and I talked Zaharah (contracts advisor) into taking a picture with me. Aren't the colors pretty? There is a better one with me and the belly dancer but I am waiting to see how much trouble I get into with this one first before posting it. If I really wanted to get in trouble there is the one of me with two girls in yukata (kimono) at the Chiyoda festival in Japan.

Hello from the Villa

Aunt Pauline wanted me to post a picture of me so here I am in Doha. Note the clever use of the universal Japanese "hi - it's me" picture pose. As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.

Eid Mubarak from Doha

Doha was nice and I got to see a bit more than the last time I was there. Ramadan and then Eid came while I was there. The weather was nice - in the upper 80's (around 30 degrees C) and it rained. There was even hail in the Northern part of the country which is very rare.

While I was there I:

• went to the Souk (market)
• went to a show that had a belly dancer and an Arabic woman singer
  
• ate a feast in an Eid celebration tent that had a whirling dervish dancer
  
• worked out and went swimming once
• went to the mall
• ate brunch at the Ritz Carlton and listened to Jazz
• ate Mexican food and everything different that was Arabic I could find
  
• worked every day

Eid mubarak...