Visiting papa at work

This morning, we (opa, oma, Sera and I) paid Johan a visit at his work site at the industrial city of Ras Laffan. I was excited just because after nearly two years here, I finally get to see what he does 12 hours a day. I have to say, the work itself is impressive and it's hard to describe the extent of it until you actually see it for yourself. So if I say they are expanding an existing LNG port, a person outside this field would say, 'a-huh'. But trust me, the entire project is a complicated, systematic and highly technical process. And I know won't do justice to the work with mere words.

Sera, on the other hand, had a ball! She was ecstatic upon seeing Johan, ran to him with open arms when she realised the long car ride led to seeing her papa at work. She played hide-and-seek with us, said 'Hi' to every person she saw, ran along the corridors, and tried to enter every office we passed. I had a privileged tour to one of the backhoe dredgers, which required us to take a ride on a speed boat (honestly, the highlight of the morning for me). Sera, of course, didn't join us. Instead she was taking a nap in the car while opa and oma continued the land tour of the site.

We had a really good lunch at the camp site, after which we drove back to Doha.

Sera was the first to get up, waiting for the adults to get ready. By the way, completely irrelevant, but check out those feet ... those toes of hers.


That's Johan and his corner of the room. He spends half the day in the office and the other out on site


Just recently, Sera started to 'smile' when we say smile for the camera. It's hilarious watching her scrounge up her face like that but how do I tell her not to smile that way?

Johan, the 'sea cow boy' ...

I have to say, quite a funny photo. Firstly, that hard hat was giving me a headache and those safety boots (borrowed from one of the female colleagues), which I wore sock-less were an inch and a half too big.