More Pictures from Birthday Weekend

I finally got these... I really need to start remembering to take my own pictures! Anyway, we went to the desert a few weekends ago (the day before my birthday) and had so much fun. Basically you take an SUV to the desert and play on the sand dunes. It's like being in a toy car at the beach and an SUV commercial at the same time.


Alan, Shelly, me, Iliano, Marjorie, Andrew, and Doug posing with a bunch of sand, some water, and a nice blue sky.









Our expert driver/tour guide for the day says "Land Cruisar. King of the desert"










It turns out our guide was right. We spent most of the morning sliding down huge sand dunes at about a 45-degree angle.


















Then we saw the beautiful inland sea, which is on the border of Qatar... and that land in the distance is Saudi Arabia.















Then our guides cooked us an amazing barbeque while we swam in the ocean. Even nicer of them since it was ramadan, so they couldn't eat the food they had cooked, or drink any water while standing outside cooking it. There was really good shisha (with Andrew) and Arabic coffee (with Eric), too.













Our guide says "Land Cruisar is not king of the ocean." Looks like he was right again, huh?

btw, that's a 2007 model Land Cruisar. Probably a $45,000 car. We never did see if they managed to get it out.






Then that night we had a party at Silvia's house. There aren't too many pictures, which could be a good thing, but if I find some more I'll be sure to post them. This is from Karen, right before she, Dave, and a lot of other people joined me for a happy birthday tequila shot.