We're So Proud!

I got a telephone call and heard a little voice say, hi Grandma! I said, Maddie? She said I went potty! This is our celebration....hooray! She is officially tiolet trained now!

Oman Pictures of the Lehi Trail Tour!

All the pictures below were taken by Scot F. Protor our great tour guide.

Notice the camels crossing right by the camel crossing sign. Right on cue!


This is the tour group we joined up with in Muscat. They treated us so nice! They included us right away. In fact, we had a name given to us "The Pleiadas" which means seven sisters. This group shot was in front of Ali's home the man who has done all this research about the ancient writings on walls in Oman being the same as the writings on walls in Colorado. Therefore, giving more proof that a group of ancient people, (Nephi and his group) traveled from Oman to America. This was probably my most spiritual moment of the trip. Ali is the man in white in the center on the second row. Musselin our Omani guide is in the back right in tan. Warren our other guide that has researched the Lehi Trail is in the blue shirt leaning on the pole and he is from Australia. Scot Protor our other guide from the US is taking the picture.


This is a cave that they think is similar to what Christ was born in. This is what they mean by a stable. Our Omani tour guide Musselin was born in a cave like this.


This is a Bedouin women we saw at the camel farm.

It never goes the way you think it should!

I know you thought we were finished with the Doha Day about banking. Well...guess what we are not. Here is the final part of the story. So, Steve gets the text message we go to the bank the next day. Steve goes to work late so he can go with me. First thing is the account number he text messaged Steve is NOT our account. Surprise! So they have to spend time looking it up. We make our deposit and that goes well. Next, we go to another window to the ATM cards and they not in yet. Of course, this is Doha we should have known! This is always the way things go. So, today I go back to the bank and the ATM cards are finally in! Hooray only one week late. This is the Land of Sand!

Follow up on Doha Day!

I thought you all might be wondering what happened with our new checking account from my last post. Well, this morning Steve received a text message on his cell phone with our account number and when and where to pick up the ATM cards. Just a little bit different, uh!

Here is a Doha Day!

We currently bank with Commerical Bank of Qatar who has been great but they now decided to hold our US checks for 45 days before giving us credit; even though my check clears our US account in 10-12 days. As a result, Steve's company has arranged another bank HSBC and they will credit our account in less than a week. First, I had to get a letter from the company and then arrange an appointment to open the account. After calling the man Aadel, he said, can you come in today? I said, no my husband works out of town a 50 minute drive. So what he said next just blew me away! Can I come to your residence or meet you at a coffee shop? I said, tonight....you would come to our villa? So tonight at 6:00 PM Aadel, a nice young man, showed up at our door had all the paperwork, explained the accounts and ATM card, credit cards etc. He asked which branch we wanted to house our account at and to pick up the cards. As he left, about 35 minutes, he said he would call me tomorrow with our account number and then call again when I could go "collect" the cards and deposit a check. Amazing!