Sunday, 2 January 2011

New Years

We celebrated new year on the beach, camping at Fuwairit (northern Qatar) with four other families.  The weather was perfect, the kids had a great time, and the grown ups had a fun evening sitting around the fire to ring in the new year.

The camp site.  Its hard to find a place where there is no concern about being run over by a land cruiser in the middle of the night so we formed a protective ring of cars around the camp (resulting in damage to Julian’s Honda Accord which, not surprisingly, should not be driven on soft sand!).IMG_5978

Kids having fun with their sand castle on the beach.IMG_5989

Family snap on the beach on new years eve.IMG_5998

Susie shows of her sand castle – very impressive.IMG_6006

The locals getting around on a bit less horsepower than normal.IMG_6007

Susie and friends enjoy the beach.IMG_6015

Fun cooking sausages and playing with the torch.IMG_6018

Toasting marshmallows for a special treat.IMG_2693

New year, so time for the sparklers.IMG_2709

Grown ups enjoying the camp fire.  Hmm, there are a lot of empty bottles…IMG_2719

Morning on the beach, the kids have marshmallows again!IMG_6039

And the grown ups enjoy a bacon fry up (the real stuff!).IMG_6032

Happy New Year to you all.  Wishing you all the best for 2011.

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