Harry Potter 7 Part 2 at the City Center in Doha

I couldn’t let international adventure stand in the way of missing the last installment of the HP movies, so Mark and I headed over to the City Center theater after work yesterday. Tickets were interesting because you actually get assigned a seat… It was nice because instead of spending a half-hour staking our seat claim we wandered over to Cold Stone for ice cream and sauntered in a few minutes before the previews started. Note: We sauntered in *with* our ice cream from Cold Stone. That’s right, folks. Food from the outside: Totally ok. The theater was really nice, too. I took some crappy cellphone pictures.

[And then there was the movie. Look at me, not doing spoilers or anything.]

There were Arabic subtitles through the whole thing. If I’d been a little bit further in “Alif Baa” I probably could’ve walked out able to write “Harry Potter” in Arabic, but life is tough. I did wander into Jarir Bookstore yesterday and got a copy of HP2 in Arabic… I had HP1 while I was learning Spanish, and it’s nice to have an end goal in sight that I can flip through. Interestingly, it had the American version of the cover art; I was almost certain it was going to be based on the British version.

Note Mark: That’s the devilish smile of a man who’s spent the last 15 minutes teasing his wife and daughter in the States via SMS about getting to see the movie before its release in the US.