Doha Days Root Canal and Crown!

Just my luck back, in September on my way home from the US back to Doha, my tooth started to hurt after biting into a pretzel on the plane. I tried very hard to forget it and hope it would go away until March when I could go home to get it fixed. Not so...finally in December when the pain was all day and night I went to the dentist. She told me I needed a root canal and sent me to a "specialist" (endontist?) she said. Well I called his cell phone for an appointment. Interesting how the doctors and dentists here give you their "mobile" numbers to call. I talked to him at 10 am and had an appointment that day at Noon. He said, I am packing now at home to leave in two days for Christmas break to my home Lebanon so can you come today? Sure my mouth was killing me so why not. It turned out that he was great. He had a special microscope and did it rather quickly and without ANY pain. I did not even feel the first shot. I was very scared so he sang to me his best "Lebanon" music so I would open my mouth wide and be calm LOL... It worked, he sang terrible and I was laughing inside and it relaxed me. Here is the other part of the story...I had to go back to the dentist to get a crown. I have been three times and will go again tomorrow to finally get the real crown. I have no idea why this process has taken so long, four visits to take an impression and get a crown...don't get it, but ladies and gentlemen this is the Land of Sand and nothing makes sense here!
PS I posted my x-rays because they gave them to me on a CD so I thought well if I get killed suddenly you can all know how to identify me by my dental records!