Time to tell you all about my weekend. We went to the Four Seasons marina to meet the rest of the people coming and our tour operator Khalifa, not really a tour operator, a local Qatari guy who works in my department. He kindly takes out his boat and jet skis each weekend so people can hang out and enjoy the wonderful Qatari water! A few of Khalifa’s friends also brought out their boats and jet skis. We left the marina about 5pm and it took 20mins to get to the sand bar, which is a large strip of land in the middle of the sea. There were heaps of boats and jet skis everywhere it was quite a site. Maybe 60 boats all anchored along the sand bar with people having BBQ’s swimming and jet skiing. The water must have been about 35 degrees, not very refreshing, and with the constant threat of jellyfish. Luckily we didn’t see any, last week two people were stung while they were swimming. We spend the whole day on the jet skis, there were 3 of them. On the fastest on we got up to about 135km which is pretty scary. I only managed to get to 90km before backing off! When it started getting dark the numbers dwindled and we were some of the only boats left. An amazing site with the lights of the city in the background and a few boat lights dotted along the sand bar. People were sill jet skiing under the moonlight. When it was really dark the water glowed when you moved in it. I think it’s called phosphor essence it’s like this green sparkly stuff in the water that glows when the water is moved. It looks amazing when the jet skis or the boats are moving and it all sprays up behind it. We were in the water for like 6 hours, much nicer after the sun went down as it cooled a lot. The water is like a spa its so warm. The boats we were out on were soooo cool, with massive motors and brand new shiny white with room down starts, very flash!!
We headed back to the marina about 1am and the other boat + 2 of the jet skis ran out of petrol so we had to tow them back! It was a mission trying to get a large speed boat back to its berth with no fuel heehee.
We then spent 2 hours in the pool of the four seasons hotel a very enjoyable day.

Saturday (like Sunday as the weekend is fir, sat) Bec, Ellen and I went out to the intercontinental. The girls got massages while I sat browning by the pool. Its almost too hot though and there is no way you can sit in the sun before 3pm. The sun comes up about 4:30 – 5am so by 11am its bloody hot. The sun sets about 5:30-6pm no daylight saving here. We had a lovely lunch at the Italian restaurant and then headed home. Didn’t do much the rest of the day and then back to work on Sunday.