Night in Qatar and home....

Arriving in Doha, Qatar a 10 PM, after about a 6 hour flight, I was told that I could get a reservation in the transfer hotel. Thanks to Qatar Airlines, I was put up in the room below for 5 hours of blissful sleep before I began the 12 hour flight to JFK where darling sister Lisa met me in her neon green shirt and whisked me back to Brooklyn for a Thai dinner with Oonie and Max and Nicholas; we drank beer, wolfed down Penang curries and then had ice cream cones at the park - Nicholas wore his chocolate cone drippings with splendor! Oonie delivered me home by 9:00, and I shot over to Wanda and Dave's to fetch a awaiting but exhausted Shadow; he's had simply TOO much fun with wonderful Marie, who left the house SO neat and tidy that I felt as though I were back in Qatar~ THANK YOU to such a big hearted family and friends who embraced me on my return. These are the little fellows who waited for my homecoming and with home I chowed down on curries and cones; they are dressed for climbing Everest with me! I am SO happy to be home. Om Mani Padme Hum, which sounds like, "Oh, Mommy, pad me home," and she or whoever DID.