Great excitement yesterday as it rained! This may not sound like much but in a country where rain is a rarity it is a big event. Needless to say my girls at school spent half the afternoon outside running around, acting crazy. The interesting thing is that it wasn't just the children who were excited, the adults were too.
It must be an omen, as the only other time it's really rained is when my son arrived at Christmas. Today my sister arrives but I'm not sure if it's still raining as it's dark outside.
The apartment is cleaned, the beds are made and the excitement is rising. She should have landed at Dubai airport by now so I've been checking my texts to see if she's on wifi there. She is taking the Emirates bus into Abu Dhabi and I'm meeting her downtown at the bus stop. That's if I can find it! All this time and I still have been unable to locate it. But progress as I've just printed off a map so that should help me.
I've rented a car for the few days she is here. Last night when I picked it up I was nervous due to the rain. As you know, drivers here are shocking on a good day, much less when it's raining. There is no such thing as following distances or allowing for wet roads. So I'm hoping today will be okay while I'm out driving.
It works out much cheaper to get a car for the few days at 100 dirhams a day as I want to go to places that aren't close to home, such as the Grand Mosque, Yas Island and the beach. The rental place have given me a nice powerful Toyota Corolla so I can zip away at the lights. Getting better cars each time I rent now.
We also had great excitement at our apartment building this week as a workers cage was thrown around by high winds and smashed into a window. Shattered glass rained down on the podium which is our leisure area so people were running like crazy to get away. The area and pools have been closed since while they removed the cage (which took 5 days as they waited for the wind to abate) and cleaned the area and pools to ensure there is no broken glass lying around. Hopefully it's open again for the sister to enjoy.
I've had my legs waxed, my eyebrows tinted, my hair cut and coloured so I'm all ready to go on our big vacation.
Look out for the next entry. I'm hoping I may be able to get my big sis to write a guest column while she is here, lazing around while I'm at work.
It must be an omen, as the only other time it's really rained is when my son arrived at Christmas. Today my sister arrives but I'm not sure if it's still raining as it's dark outside.
The apartment is cleaned, the beds are made and the excitement is rising. She should have landed at Dubai airport by now so I've been checking my texts to see if she's on wifi there. She is taking the Emirates bus into Abu Dhabi and I'm meeting her downtown at the bus stop. That's if I can find it! All this time and I still have been unable to locate it. But progress as I've just printed off a map so that should help me.
I've rented a car for the few days she is here. Last night when I picked it up I was nervous due to the rain. As you know, drivers here are shocking on a good day, much less when it's raining. There is no such thing as following distances or allowing for wet roads. So I'm hoping today will be okay while I'm out driving.
It works out much cheaper to get a car for the few days at 100 dirhams a day as I want to go to places that aren't close to home, such as the Grand Mosque, Yas Island and the beach. The rental place have given me a nice powerful Toyota Corolla so I can zip away at the lights. Getting better cars each time I rent now.
We also had great excitement at our apartment building this week as a workers cage was thrown around by high winds and smashed into a window. Shattered glass rained down on the podium which is our leisure area so people were running like crazy to get away. The area and pools have been closed since while they removed the cage (which took 5 days as they waited for the wind to abate) and cleaned the area and pools to ensure there is no broken glass lying around. Hopefully it's open again for the sister to enjoy.
I've had my legs waxed, my eyebrows tinted, my hair cut and coloured so I'm all ready to go on our big vacation.
Look out for the next entry. I'm hoping I may be able to get my big sis to write a guest column while she is here, lazing around while I'm at work.
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