Mr. and Mrs. MacDougall!

On the weekend we had the pleasure in celebrating with Kat and Iain their long awaited wedding. It was a delightful day, starting for us girls in the salon, moving on to the church at Jebel Ali and then to the One and Only Royal Mirage. Just a few pics here to give you a feel for the day.

Mr. and Mrs. MacDougall cutting their cake.

The girls plus 1/2, sex as yet unknown (sorry Mum it's not mine).

Later on down on the beach. Looking quite merry I must say.

Some more of the girls having a quick dip...

Happy Birthday Zadok!

Oops! Bit late with this one. It was Zadok's birthday last Saturday, he turned 26 the ancient old thing. We had a good meal out the Thursday night with lots of laughs and probably slightly too much wine/beer...

Mel always makes personal cards for people's birthdays and i had wondered what she was going to come up with for Zadok this year, very appropriate I think!

This weekend gone we were really busy with Muriel and Al over, next weekend we slip into pre wedding mode, our good friends Kat and Iain are finally getting hitched... Hehe. Photos of all the to come I promise!

Only in the Middle East...

WELL, we have had a very bizarre week here in Dubai. We dragged ourselves into work like normal on Sunday morning expecting/dreading the first 5 day teaching week in quite a while due to various school and public holidays. Early in the afternoon there was a stir as emails started filtering through about road closures due to the arrival of George Bush. As the afternoon wore on some people wondered if they would get to school at all. Now rumours started doing the rounds that some schools would not open, and low and behold, at 4pm the goverment declared a public holiday for all of Dubai as most major roads and bridges would be shut, supposedly to ensure the safety of Mr. Bush on his first ever UAE visit. You can imagine the uproar that followed with those on the actual route being asked to stay in their houses and people not having the warmest feelings for afore mentioned politition. I however, am one to see the bright side, I got to stay in bed and read an entire Marian Keyes book (Watermelon, very entertaining...) and walk around my area as I often do but without the mountains of traffic that usually gets in my way!

Pic is of Sheikh Zayed Road (car park?) 12 lanes wide and usually choc-a-block with traffic... Just a few police cars zooming up and down and supposedly at some stage Mr. Bush himself.

Happy Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had a lovely Dubai Christmas this year, thanks to my good friend Mel really, she was so organised and had all our festivities booked up in October!

In the morning Zadok and I headed down to the beach, where we sat in the car and ate bacon butties... (hehe, ask a Brit) and drank coffee. We were on Palace Beach, so named because of the palaces at one end, you can see one just above our car.

I called home and chatted to Mum and Dad which was nice.

We headed to Al Qasr for lunch, I think I've blogged before about their delicious Brunch, Christmas Day was no different, all the usual seafood, meat, salad and desert aswell as endless turkey, ham, beef, beef wellington and rosat veggies with lots of bubbly!

As I've said befor the Al Qasr has the best setting in Dubai, the views are gorgeous, and despite the cold snap we've had (temp around 24 degrees c in the day) it was warm and for a Tassie girl, very summery feeling!

Up to the bar after for the must have Burj shot. Note to self... Take Burj shot BEFORE brunch next time.. Hehe.

So we missed our family and all our friends who were travelling and those back home, but we had a lovely day anyway and added some more happy memories!