We decided to go and see the Damien Hirst art exhibit in town. The great thing about Doha, is that many of their events and exhibitions are free. We were thankful that we didn't pay money to see this. His work is .... interesting. If looking at polka dots is your thing, well you may get more out of it. He seemed to be obsessed with medications (pills all lined up on mirrored shelves), surgical tools (shelves of those too), animals in formaldehyde, and flies (both dead and all stuck together on a circular plate about 10 feet in diameter, and living gathering around a cow's skull). Go figure. Stuart did remark though that it was one of the more interesting 'museums' he's been to and is sure there must be deeper meaning in his artwork than any of us can figure out.
The exhibition center is located at the Museum of Islamic Art Park, so we had a nice walk along the waterfront.
Madeline and Stuart got into cookie making mode and spent an evening in the kitchen. We were all grateful for the dozens of cookies that were available for nibbling.
Then on Christmas Eve we went to church. What usually takes us 20 minutes on a Friday morning took us more than an hour on a weeknight. The traffic was horrendous and it wasn't all the locals heading off to church either. Just the usual night traffic.
Maddie made sure that Santa was taken care of for his late night visit! He had some Baileys and a minced pie... lucky fellow.
