Here are a bunch of photos and stories of what we have been up to since moving to Doha, Qatar, in July 2006. Enjoy! Brendan, Samantha, Isabelle, Matilda & Josephine
The temperature has dropped nicely (under 30C!) and we all have a week long holiday (Eid Al Adha). Soooo, the natural thing to do for the White family is to go camping! 
This time Bren's old uni friend, Han, brings his two kids along for the ride.
Beautiful sunset on top of a sanddune... on top of the world!
Tessa, true desert dog, and bestest dog ever.
Warming our feet by the campfire... post-smores.
Girl-talk.
"American Dream" dancers with Edmund 
Bangkok girls - I feel young again... the other dancers are teens!
Made awesome friends, here are other contestants for the Miss Saigon title, haha! 
More of Bangkok scene, with our choreographer Paula, who is also Matilda's ballet teacher. 
The children who performed in the show. Isabelle also made great new friends and conquered Super Mario brothers level 8 over the three weeks of late night thanks to these kids! 
The adult cast. I'm in the front with the male lead (Nick) trying my best to keep my leg straight and smile! 
Act 1, scene 1: the children open the show with a school scene and they are singing in Vietnamese. 
Isabelle in the dressing room waiting for her cue. 
Market scene when Kim & Chris have just spend the night together, I'm selling flowers with some children... we had to change the bedroom scene to a public market scene - This is Doha! 
The wedding scene... it's been a while since I did ballet. 
The boat scene... I finally get to be Isabelle's stage mother too! It's a very emotional scene and this is when hoards of audience members start crying. 
Isabelle with two of the leads... Riette (left) plays Chris' American wife Ellen and Mia (right) plays Kim, his Vietnamese wife. 
Thanks to DH Brown for taking a nice mother/daughter shot! 
Matilda came to watch the show twice and loved it. She got to hang out with Mia who was so lovely and even seranaded Matilda with her favourite song. How lucky! 
With some of the boys backstage.
This is my lobby photo (which my students at Doha College have all taken photos of on their iPhones & Blackberries!!)
Isabelle's lobby photo.
"Girls, I've got Girls" - now I'm a hooker in Bangkok. My students can't believe the transformation from supernerd to prositute... hahaha.
However, she still wanted to dress up and join the neighbourhood kids in trick-or-treating around the compound. 
Sister witches. Which witch is which? 
Even dogs dress up in Green Village. 
Matilda and Lewis scored big tonight. 
Happy happy. Joy joy. 
Or is that just the candy talking?
Look scary, Matilda. 
But Mummy, I'm a nice witch. Oh, OK. 
With BFF Zombie Mimi.
Matilda finally lost her first tooth. The best part is she pulled it out herself!
We spent the afternoon together at Qatar Equestrian Federation
Wow, they really fly!
Saturday morning pottery with Grandma.
Non-stop playing with great new friends from the cul de sac in Leeming.
Mmm... banana smoothie and pancakes at Naked Fig Cafe.
Letting Kong Kong win at chess.
Trying on Mormor's fur for size.
Brendan & BFF Bill with boys.
Two cheeky monkeys... soon to be three.
"Boys, oh boys... I think he's come back for his noon feeding." (Jaws, 1975)
Grandpa got dizzy with the girls dragging him around the huge tank seven times!!
Super cool touchpool.
The end result was a lot of mess and many good-looking cookies!