Tim's Birthday

Simon, Laureen, Max, Tim ready for dinner and a movie

This past weekend we celebrated Tim's birthday. It was a quiet affair and similar to our weekly Friday night movie with Laureen. We started inviting Laureen to join us for a movie and supper on Fridays. It is fun for us and a "cultural experience" for her -- given that our tastes in movies are drastically different from her normal. For Tim's birthday we had take-out Indian food from our favourite Tandoor Restaurant. Our movie was the second Indiana Jones movie (we are doing all of them this month).

Tim's birthday gift was a new BBQ. We were given a second hand BBQ when we moved to Doha and it has served us well this past year. But now that only half of it works, we thought it time for an upgrade. Tim's challenge was to put it together and get it functioning for a gathering we were hosting on Saturday night. He succeeded with the assembly and then filled up the propane tank. To fill the tank cost exactly 8 Qatari Riyals (about $2). Tim thought the man said 80 riyals because $20 would be closer to what we are used to paying. But no, it was just 8 riyals!