The Dalia surprise

Yesterday was a memorable day. Dalia surprised us, showing up in Doha along with Duri, who we had expected, here for half a day to attend a business meeting.The original plan was to meet Duri and his co-worker Mohammad at theairport, take them somewhere for breakfast for a few hours beforetheir meeting.

However, there was a pleasant change inplans. Dalia, who earlier said she couldn't accompany Duri to Doha,surprised us by showing up at the airport with son Sanad and Duri. What a nice surprise and such a pleasant way to spend the day.

After getting over the surprise of having Dalia here, we all headed to Johnny Rockets, where we had a fine filling breakfast and picked up from where we left off in Dubai nearly two months ago.

After Duri and Mohammad excused themselves for their meeting,we took Dalia and Sanad to Doha's number one landmark: City Centre.Dalia's friend Dima, who lives here in Doha, also joined us at the mall wherewe had a nice chat and took a brief tour of the mammoth complex.

This was followed by a drive a long the Corniche then a stop at ourplace, where Dalia got to watch our wedding video for the first time.Duri and Mohammad joined us in the evening. Right before heading tothe airport we stopped at Salasa (a Mexian restaurant at the Marriotthotel) for some drinks and appetizers. Overall we had a wonderful day andwere pleasantly surprised. [Click on the pictures for an enlargement.]