Seems like ages ago
A couple of old weekends rolled into one..
The past 2 weekends have been relatively productive. I guess with work being so busy as well, I’ve been pretty lazy in keeping things up to date.. plus my internet connection (the dodgy leeching-bit) is playing up.. I hope my lappy doesn’t have a virus.
On Friday 7th, I had purchased tickets for the Dubai Tennis Championships. I had the choice of picking up semi-finals or finals day, but chose the semis because it was on Friday (ie. Had the option to kick-on and not have to worry about being at work the next day) and we’d get a couple more games for 50dhs less. The womens championships were separate which concluded the previous week.. so we got to watch Feliciano Lopez (hot!) beat Nikolay Davydenko in a very exciting final 3rd set.. wasn’t really paying attention to the Damm/Vizner vs Nestor/Zimonjic doubles match.. A fast match between Andy Roddick (who ended up winning the finals the day after) and Novak Djokovic. We didn’t bother staying for the last doubles match.. and after waiting over half and hour to grab a taxi, we all got dropped off at our respective houses most possibly suffering heat stroke.
On Thursday 13th, we had a new arrival to the J3 villa - Denis. So in the evening Erik, Emma, Ben and I went out to dinner. After admitting that he wasn’t a fan of Mexican (WHAT!) and didn’t want arab food (WHAT!), we went down to the Jumeira Rotana Hotel.. home to our office local Boston Bar and a german restaurant called Brauhaus. I was ready to get on some schniddy, but after being seated, the waiter told us about their Thursday night deal - the german buffet and all-you-can-drink. The boys went to check the food and gave it a thumbs up as it included steak, roast pork, other pork products and an impressive dessert table. Denis started off with 2 beers straight down.. then seemed to move on to vodka, bourbon.. next thing you know he’s doing shots with Erik and then the martinis come out. Amazing.
Friday 14th marked a couple of special occasions.. it was 3 years since I officially started working as a landscape architect, Wormie’s 3rd birthday and Tim & Carol’s wedding! To celebrate, I’d booked a snowboarding lesson with Emma at Ski Dubai. I was a bit nervous with remembering the carnage went when Tash & I were in Austria (bunged up knees, possible broken arms, soreness etc etc). Its meant to be a 1.5hr lesson, but because there were only 3 of us, it got cut down to 1hr. Our instructor, Emile, went through really basic things.. like gliding with one foot in, riding with one foot in whilst doing squats, riding up the slope on the magic carpet and sliding down on the back edge. Emma is a skiier, so she found it weird being on one board and I was pretty pleased that I remembered things. Theres 2 more lessons to be had where we should then technically be able to ride down the slope. I’m pretty keen to keep going with the lessons and doesnt seem as stressful as learning all these bits in 1hr and then placed straight on the slope to be mowed down by passing riders.
Photos:Mishmash of Weekends
Emma and I went for a walk around MoE then headed out to Karama for souvenirs.
We ended up meeting Erik at Barasti for a couple of drinks in the evening. I haven’t been back there since NYE, but it didn’t seem so bad that night.
On Saturday I ran some errands during the day and then went to meet Ben at the Jebel Ali club to hear about his aussie adventures and eat steak, which was perhaps just as good as the steaks at The Meat Co., but at half the price!
The past 2 weekends have been relatively productive. I guess with work being so busy as well, I’ve been pretty lazy in keeping things up to date.. plus my internet connection (the dodgy leeching-bit) is playing up.. I hope my lappy doesn’t have a virus.
On Friday 7th, I had purchased tickets for the Dubai Tennis Championships. I had the choice of picking up semi-finals or finals day, but chose the semis because it was on Friday (ie. Had the option to kick-on and not have to worry about being at work the next day) and we’d get a couple more games for 50dhs less. The womens championships were separate which concluded the previous week.. so we got to watch Feliciano Lopez (hot!) beat Nikolay Davydenko in a very exciting final 3rd set.. wasn’t really paying attention to the Damm/Vizner vs Nestor/Zimonjic doubles match.. A fast match between Andy Roddick (who ended up winning the finals the day after) and Novak Djokovic. We didn’t bother staying for the last doubles match.. and after waiting over half and hour to grab a taxi, we all got dropped off at our respective houses most possibly suffering heat stroke.
On Thursday 13th, we had a new arrival to the J3 villa - Denis. So in the evening Erik, Emma, Ben and I went out to dinner. After admitting that he wasn’t a fan of Mexican (WHAT!) and didn’t want arab food (WHAT!), we went down to the Jumeira Rotana Hotel.. home to our office local Boston Bar and a german restaurant called Brauhaus. I was ready to get on some schniddy, but after being seated, the waiter told us about their Thursday night deal - the german buffet and all-you-can-drink. The boys went to check the food and gave it a thumbs up as it included steak, roast pork, other pork products and an impressive dessert table. Denis started off with 2 beers straight down.. then seemed to move on to vodka, bourbon.. next thing you know he’s doing shots with Erik and then the martinis come out. Amazing.
Friday 14th marked a couple of special occasions.. it was 3 years since I officially started working as a landscape architect, Wormie’s 3rd birthday and Tim & Carol’s wedding! To celebrate, I’d booked a snowboarding lesson with Emma at Ski Dubai. I was a bit nervous with remembering the carnage went when Tash & I were in Austria (bunged up knees, possible broken arms, soreness etc etc). Its meant to be a 1.5hr lesson, but because there were only 3 of us, it got cut down to 1hr. Our instructor, Emile, went through really basic things.. like gliding with one foot in, riding with one foot in whilst doing squats, riding up the slope on the magic carpet and sliding down on the back edge. Emma is a skiier, so she found it weird being on one board and I was pretty pleased that I remembered things. Theres 2 more lessons to be had where we should then technically be able to ride down the slope. I’m pretty keen to keep going with the lessons and doesnt seem as stressful as learning all these bits in 1hr and then placed straight on the slope to be mowed down by passing riders.
Photos:Mishmash of Weekends
Emma and I went for a walk around MoE then headed out to Karama for souvenirs.
We ended up meeting Erik at Barasti for a couple of drinks in the evening. I haven’t been back there since NYE, but it didn’t seem so bad that night.
On Saturday I ran some errands during the day and then went to meet Ben at the Jebel Ali club to hear about his aussie adventures and eat steak, which was perhaps just as good as the steaks at The Meat Co., but at half the price!