ARRIVE DUBAI .....GREETED BY RAIN

OUR BACK YARD..............THE DUBAI MARINA............

TOGETHER AT LAST

Hannes looks so good. He has lost weight and is so relaxed an happy with his life . I am so glad for him as he has worked so hard all his life with no regard to his own quality of life. He goes to gym very day and eats healthy and well. To gym here is so easy as every apartment building has it's own gym, steam room and pool onsite. He only goes to gym to feel good and not only to loose weight. For him it is a stress releiver. Me on the other hand will not easily go to gym (even in this easy access) as I do not really like excercise very much. I would rather sit and have coffee and a chat with someone............................even in he gym....... We plan to go for walks every day in the marina after Hannes returns form work. It is so safe here that yo can do that even in the evening.......

This was the sunrise that greeted us as we arrived home in Dubai. This foto was taken from our balcony. The day was rather overcast and the rain soon geeted us. it is said that it nly ains for 2 days per year in Dubai......Well we have had 2 days of rain. It is not the ame as rain as we know it. It is much less but all the taffic gos ballistic nd over the radio report of water n the road are all he time. Seems as if the water alosdoes not drain away and n areas it looks like a dam in the road althoug the "downpour" was very little.

The sky is clear and I can see stars tonight . All the buildings sems clean and the "dust" cload is nowhere to be seen. It is cool and very different than the hot Dubai I left in October. Most visitors like Dubai In December due to the climate. I find it too cold for Dubai. I love the heat...

We went to Dubai mall for the day. It is a brand new mall which opened a few weeks ago and is said to be the biggest mall in the world.....................No shit sherlock.............This baby is huge..... I think we did about a tenth of the mall. The boys were so confused in the food hall as to what to choose from..... The boys and I made our choices and were seated and eating when Hannes arrives with his lunch selection..................We had to laugh....

(picture this in your imagination) The 3 of us were in trays and paper (like at Mc Donalds) and here his lordship arrives with a designer paperbag number (Looks like a Gucci or Chanel shopping bag) Inside is his take away from the Thai outlet in the fast food hall.................His cutlery is silver plastic..............We eat with our hands and plenty of seviette's (We chose burger king you see..............) Any way we had ou laugh and teased hannes about his designer lunch bag............................. Was a moment thing

These 2 boys are blown away with Dubai.....They have been around town in the red bus. It gives an overall look of Dubai and what it offers. Here the 2 are at "WAFI" This is one of the lani malls in Dubai. We are like country bumpkins let loose on the big world. I feel like "Hessie vanaf die plaas" here. Every thing is at your fingertipe and in such great volume. It is mind boggling at times.

The red bus is a fantastic thing to do in Dubai on your first day. It is a "hop on hop off" bus. You can stay on the bus all day too and just look, listen and learn about Dubai. We took the boys to get the overall idea of Dubai. It has 26 stops all over town, but you can sit on top an have a birds eye veiuw. We got off at the creek for a cruise down the creek.

Some impressive buildings on he creek and actually to let you see the cloud formation in Dubai. It rained on and off the whle day. You do not need a rain coat as it is sporadic showers.

The creek still trades in goods and it has this fantastic mix of old and new. In this foto is the new buildings and yachts. Go back a few blogs and you will see the old. The boats that till trade in this "port". It is actually he whole creek edge that is one big dock.

Today has been a slow day. I am so tired and struggle to keep my eyes open. The boys met up with school friends that also live in dubai and Hannes is on duty tonight. I did my household chores tonight when all as quiet and I as alone. So tomorrow we can go go go again.

It is so easy to clean this tiny flat............ I could not do all the washing as the washing machine died on me today............Luckily it is the landlords problem to fix or replace. Until then it will either be hand washing or laundry service....Which one do you all vote for.

I did skype with Laurika tonight and this technology is fantasic..... Ermanno and Clydene tried to skype but we had a gremlin in the works..............Don't knw why but thy could only see and hear me,I could not hear or see them at all.......

Enough of me today......

L

PS. Spell check not woring a all..........................SORRY