Jazzing It Up With Jassim.

While we were leaving the camel race track the other day,
Tammi wanted to see where all the camels go at night.
We ended up in "Camel City". No kidding. It was like "Dodge City"
for Arabs. We met a genuine Camelboy. His name is Jassim.
He is a cousin to the Sheik Al Thani. So, he is Qatari. And, by far, the
coolest Qatari I've met so far.

He took us to his camel ranch and let us ride his awesome animals.
Riding was a snap. The mount and dismount were more tricky.

Tammi was having the time of her life. She said our honeymoon paled
by comparison. I'm not too hurt. She has to take half the blame, right?

This was his prize winning camel. It's worth about a quarter of a million
bucks and also won the international camel beauty contest.
10,000 camels from all over the Middle East competed.
It was the grand race champion and the prize was a new Land Cruiser.

At night, Jassim and his brothers and friends sit around this tent and smoke
their hookas and discuss, well, guy stuff. He took us to the Sheik's camel ranch.
300 camels! Jassim only had 50 camels. We got to see all of them. If we had more
time in Doha, I'll bet we could have met the big guy. We are becoming quite the
little networkers.