Your Brown Skin shining in the sun

We decided last night, that we would wake at Sunrise and swim. 

We didn't manage Sunrise, we managed 7 am. 

The water was perfectly flat calm and so so warm.   We all walked in slowly and sunk under the water.   It was already 28 degrees and swimming around at that time in the morning was fab. Not another soul around anywhere. 

Then Tooli went "ouch".  And "I think I've been stung". 

We came out the water, and there was a red mark on her foot, we hobbled with her over to the life guard station (YES THEY WERE THERE ALREADY). 

Jacob took her foot and washed it with bottled water, and then sprayed the jelly fish sting with vinegar.  He was a proper gent. 

We hobbled back over to Si and then headed back for breakfast. 

Si was overwhelmed by the service.  he stood with the glasses to go and fetch us juice, and a little girl ran over, and took them off him, pished him back into the chair,and said "no no sir, you must sit, I will fetch for you".   *NOTE:  It was a buffet breakfast". 

There was all sorts to eat.   Asian, India European, Arabian.  

Me?  i had the most perfect Eggs Benedict with Salmon.  Tooli had chicken sausages and beef bacon (No pork in this country).   Si grazed in between watching for the waitress .. 

We went back to the beach and this position  is basically how you found us for the rest of the day. 

We had a late checkout and for the first time in years, I sat on the beach with a petted lip and said "i don't want to go home". 

We didn't stop then.  We left the island and arrived back in the jewel that is Doha... ubered back to the apartment, changed and ubered back to the Shopping Mall where we ate at one of Tooli's favorite restaurants.   It was all about the Beef.   Si had a hanging filet, (700gram of filet cooked on a skewer and dangled in front of him.  I had brisket slow-cooked with Mash and Tooli had a medium Filet Steak with chips and onions.  Wow.  Amazing. 

The shopping centre had a river running through it, and  you could  take a gondola ride through it.  We had a visit to Carrefore - Tooli's local supermarket and a browse through the "nice " shops.  Chanel, Gucci, ... names I couldn't even pronounce. 

Then it was into another uber, and off to bed, with dreams of Banana Island still buzzing through my head.