Only in the Middle East Number 2....

Now I know all of you never read the words and just look at the pictures on my blog so I've broken this bizarre week into 2 to make it less daunting for you.... Hehe. Back into work on Tuesday morning ready for the last 3 days of the week. Overnight something else bizzare has happened, IT'S RAINED! First time in nearly a year. When I say it's rained, it's a bit of an understatement, it had poured and was continuing to pour. I wondered if we would even get the little 307 through the masive puddles. The drainage system in Dubai is not world class. The kids straggled in and the rain continued. Stories of flooding throughout the city were told. Zadok's work closed due to flooding and noone being able to do any work. At about 1 it was announced the SCHOOL WOULD CLOSE the following day, and then at about 10pm the government announced ALL SCHOOLS WOULD CLOSE Wednesday and Thursday and reopen for the new week on Sunday!! Hurrah! Another 2 days off!

Weather cleared early yesterday morning after 100mm of rain in about 24hrs and now the sun is shining, most of the flooding has been attended to and I am enjoying a leisurely 4 day weekend!

Runour has it that more rain is going to fall next week.... We'll have to wait and see!

Photos borrowed from Gulf News

Desert Safari

I've not posted so much from Jen's visit but I thought it was worth going back in time to put these on. We headed off on Desert Safari like any good tourist should.

Your driver comes and picks up from your house in the afternoon and we headed off to the red sands of the Dubai desert.

I've done a safari before but I must say this one was better, we had a great driver who was dtermined to hit the biggest dunes at the highest speed, much squealing was happening!

We atopped at a camel farm where there were hundreds of camels, lots of baby ones aswell! This camel was particularly friendly ad quite happy to have his photo taken.

When you get to camp they have shwarma and other arabic food, you can smoke shisha, we rode a camel and had henna on our ankles. It's a great way to tick a lot of your Arabian tick boxes! I had a go at belly dancing and we tried on the abaya etc.... It's very, very hot under there!

This is me signing off for a bit, Zadok and I fly for Australia early on Sunday morning. We should be back in Tasmania on Wednesday.