Thank you to all who have sent Christmas cards our way this year! It is taking about one week for us to receive letters which seems like a pretty good turn-around. We have a few things to mail back the other way so we'll see how long that takes!
Mega Mart at the mall with the fire is open (and so is the carousel, thank goodness!) so I will probably just do all of our shopping there since it has the most American/western stuff. Plus it's just a grocery store and not a hypermarket which, I think, makes it a little less crazy to shop in. I've gotten two frozen pizzas to have on hand and they are both from Iceland. I guess Iceland is known for this? I don't know, but the first one Anna & I tried was good so maybe the Mega Mart stockers are on to something there.
The weather is cool and we actually had to roll out the portable electric radiators last night to keep our feet from turning into ice blocks! Today seemed a bit warmer though and Anna & I were comfortable in long sleeves at the park (but needed jackets or sweaters to go out to dinner tonight).
Craig is starting the search for cars for us. We'll see what we can find in our price range, but I'll probably get a small SUV-type that will keep me and the girls safe from the Land Cruisers (and so I can have a chance to see around the Land Cruisers when they block my line of sight into the round-abouts!). Hopefully something will turn up before our alloted rental car days are up (the company only pays for a certain number of rental days and then we're on our own).
Craig will have most of the next couple of weeks off (vacation and then Eid al-Adha). Not sure what we'll do with him all of that time but hopefully we'll do a bit of exploring around Qatar (as much as we can without 4WD, anyway).
