Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Thanksgiving this year was very different, but it was a great weekend full of fun and lots of food.  We had to work on Thursday, but the Americans in the office brought in their favorite Thanksgiving desserts to share with the rest of the office.  It was fun to share some Thanksgiving facts and talk about our family traditions.

 

 

The Doha Tribeca Film Festival has been going on this past week.  Temporary theaters were set up at three different locations around town and each played multiple movies a day.  Thursday after work we enjoyed the movie Searching for Sugar Man.  The movie was about an artist from Detroit named Rodriguez who recorded a coupe albums in the 60s but never made it big in the US.  Although, he was bigger than Elvis in South Africa, but never knew it.  I highly recommend Searching for Sugar Man.  My inner diva had a little too much fun walking the red carpet before the show.

 

 

Friday morning I joined a friend for a run.  My friend is training for an Ironman, so I just tagged along for a couple laps around Aspire which was built for the 2006 Asian Games.  The Asian Games are the second largest multi sport event after the Olympics.  The facilities are really nice and open to the public.  I thought the outdoor ellipticals along the path were a nice touch.

 

We celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday night at the nicest people's home.  There is no arguing that they are not the nicest people.  They invited us to their Thanksgiving celebration after meeting me once and then sent us home with all the leftovers.  Our refrigerator is a beautiful site.  It was a fabulous evening filled with great company, wonderful food, and hopefully the beginning of many friendships. 

 

This evening we are playing a softball game and then eating more food!  Our friends invited us over for some leftovers from their Mexican Thanksgiving feast and we are ecstatic.  We love Mexican food and haven't had any since being in Doha.  I started drooling when I heard homemade salsa.  I started this week in a bad mood, but it ended up being a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.