Weekend away...

Can you see us? Oh, no, you can't, you have to love the humidity! I'm sitting at home, watching the first season of Alias (I know, I'm just about 10 years behind) thinking about how nice it is to have NOTHING to do at times. Ramadan hours are great for work and tutoring, it leaves the whole afternoon and evening to relax. A group of us went to Fujairah, an emirate on the E. Coast, this weekend. We left Friday morning and came back Saturday night, just in time for Kim, Caroline and I to rush to the last half of soccer practice.

I was reminded of a bunch of different things about myself this weekend. Here's a few things, I'm not the best at group travel, I get overly annoyed at certain situations, people who get bothered by what kids may potentially do make me a bit crazy, even if they are my closest friends here and Dubai Lisa just can't get over it. I, of course, set some rules for myself to deal with the situation and ended up worked up anyways. I did not, however, decide not to go, which was an option earlier in the week. Cryptic enough? It has to go on the list of things that I just can't be annoyed about, yet, I'm still annoyed.

The weekend was AWESOME! It started off with a great Friday morning run, then we loaded up the car and left by 10:00. I rode out with Kate, one of the new counselor's and her family. It was a quick and easy drive out, at any given moment the roads and/or road signs change, so it's nice that we made it out there! We met everyone else out there, ate some lunch, lounged around on the beach and by the pool. We spent the evening out at the hotel restaurants (welcome to life in the UAE) having a completely relaxing time. The next day we I spent the whole day by/in the pool while other people did some snorkeling. Could not have asked for a better weekend!









View from our hotel room









Humidity at it's best...










Enjoying the Iftar tent










Becky and I at dinner










Does Mark have enough drinks? And what a creepy smile...











Patrick and Becky

Oh what a night... being in Dubai is at times the worst possible outcome, but this weekend, that wasn't how it felt at all... just another day in paradise...