Dubai, Dubai, Dubai...

Syma's birthday dinner at Barasti... where else?

Well, being back in Dubai after a break is always a little bittersweet. It's nice to be home and sleep in your bed and see your friends, but then, there's that whole work thing. BLAH. Every day I think, ok, today is totally going to be better. Then I get here and one more completely insane thing happens and I think, I'm shocked, and then I'm annoyed that I'm shocked. Ok, done with the complaining for now.

It's actually been really nice to be back. The first day I ran some errands, cleaned, grocery shopped, cooked food for the week, drank a couple of bottles of wine with a girlfriend and then had some Arz, I mean, what more can I ask for? The next day was a typical Dubai day. Heather and I tried to go to the Syrian Consulate to figure out how to get a tourist visa, of course many of the consulates were open, but... the Syrian one was closed. Typical.

Then I met Mark at Lime Tree, Heather eventually joined us, and we sat around drinking coffee and talking for hours. Later that evening I went to Syma's birthday dinner at Barasti. I loved that I could sit outside in a strapless dress and flip flops and not be freezing, well, not till the end of the night at least!

The work week was short, only 4 days, but still seemed to drag on and on. Soccer was pretty awful too. We lost, which is never fun, but something about it was off. I think next week will be better. I also did something weird to my foot. I ran about15kms last night and it was fine during the run, but about an hour later, it hurt to put any weight on it. This morning it's hurting a ton. I thought about going in to get it looked at, but decided I don't want to because they might tell me something I don't want to know.

Katie flew in last night, which I am totally excited about! Judging by the amount of luggage she brought, I think she might actually be moving here. I shouldn't complain though, because in that luggage is magazines, cliff bars and most importantly, she smuggled in one of my favorite NW wines, Syncline, Subduction Red. YEAH! I'm so excited for her to see this place and meet the people I'm always talking about. I'm so excited it's almost the weekend! 4 and a half more hours...