Eds 30th!!!!

Ok so had a break from the blog….mainly because I have been soooooo busy hahahaha
Naaaa, I just seem to have got into a routine! Go to work, back to the flat and read the 7 days that I manage to pick up at work, from cover to cover..(I love that rag) and then go for a swim…..eat and then sit down to trash TV….well that is unless we have got hold of the latest Heros!!!! CHRIST I AM ADDICTED TO IT!
Anyway….i will attempt an monster update over the next few days!!! As GUESS WHAT!!! IT’S THE WEEKEND AGAIN! Time is just flying……not long till stvev is out now!!!

Right the weekend of the 8th! Ok so it started on the Thursday! Ed (one of the NGS OLD SKOOL) turned 30….not sure of the exact date, but events coordinator extraordinaire KATH, organized his bash! The venue…the Blue Elephant for Thai buffet (again all you can eat and drink!!!!) think we got there for around 20:30 and I figured a good move would be sticking to the same beverage….red wine it was!
19 peeps turned out….many faces I remember and it was cool to catch up…
Hit the buffet…………everything from curry to salad…stir fry and whole fish…..was a good spread…as with all these events though, you tend to get, or try to get your money’s worth of booze! I had a few trips, and the inadvertent accident…..by that I mean selecting some of the spiciest dishes I have ever shoved in my mouth! The Clams were EVIL!...tried the freshly cooked stir fry….can recommend it!
Hours later and many conversations later (note one I was having with Stu in the photo….no doubt I was talking bllox and boring him senseless…..) and it was time to move….had a couple of revelations….shiney clubber Chris admitted to missing the messy nights out at JD (jimmy Dix)….so….i have vowed to organize a night out….probably in the new year now though! Anyway….the rest is a big blurr…
I later found out (from the photos on my camera) that I got back to the NGS with Mohammed and co….then ended up at the roof after a tour of their flat…Kath never made it up to the roof, but that was because she was frantically packing to go to UK the next morning! Hahaha 8am flight….REALLY not envying her there!
the next I remember being at J&C flat, having a severe bout of the munchies and scoffing on the left over party food from Sky’s 3rd party…..sufficed to say it was all sweet stuff and I really didn’t need to be eating that at 3 in the morning!.....
Friday was the worst I have ever felt….i think it was probably wine…although I didn’t get up til 13:00 and jean was soooo nice to me…I felt sooooo crook….apparently I was an ill yellow colour hahahah I could hardly string a sentence together and thankfully I just had a quiet day….did nothing…..not even swim….
Really think it was more than the alcohol because I still felt ill on Saturday….i had to call the Dragon Boating lady to let her know there was no way I was stepping into a boat the way I was feeling! So just slowly got up and went to find the Post office to send a jumper back home for my niece…..it was soooo cute…I couldn’t resist it!
Post office was pretty easy to find…..(yeah that’s why you drove past it Witts)……it was another waiting affair….pull a ticket like the meat counter at the supermarket and wait your turn! It only took 4 days to get back home!
Decided I would take a slow walk around MOE to get a new top for the Arabic Wedding I had been invited too the next weekend……and I needed desperately to find a boy to clean my car! Hahahaha
Shopped out I hit the pool in the afternoon to try and get some colour!...
Really it was a wasted weekend…but not considering I had a wicked Thursday night with the guys!!!

WHERE IS THE SUN? and my camera cable come to think of it!

Now I am getting frustrated! STILL no camera cable….despite having ordered one and it has been delivered to Widnes! Will have to check with the boy to find out where it is! I can assure you though, this episode of the blog is gonna have no pics……..
Woke up full of the joys on Friday 2nd Nov..no hangover and a plan to hit the pool or go for an explore to festival city and wander round Ikea….(I LOVE IKEA! My house in UK is 15 mins from a MASSIVE Ikea at Warrington….)….anyway…opened the curtains…..NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo it was grey….what the *^%^*……..great! no sun….and I am in desperate need of a bit of colour! So plan B….festival city….ok so I am not tight and wasn’t deliberately avoiding Salik, but wanted to take a drive over the business bay bridge…after all festival city is right at the end of the bridge so it made sense….armed with map I left the flat about 12……pretty uneventful drive….headed down SZR and just followed the signs for business bay…..had been joking with Chris that I should stay left all the way as the road layout in Dubai invariably means that if you want to take an exit going right, for example, you usually have to turn left……….DOH I took him literally….and managed to miss a turn and head toward the Nad Al Sheba racecourse…NO DRAMA, was able to turn back and get back on track! Eventually (it was further than I thought!) after negotiating roadwork chicanes and lorries pulling out I got to the bridge and festival city….
I parked near the VIP entrance….WTF it’s a shopping mall not a cinema showing a premier!...anyway I was still unsure whether a scruffy weekend dressed brit like me was supposed to be walking on the red carpet going in the mall by that entrance…basically it was the entrance near Ikea, but could I see how to get to Ikea?…NO …….I sheepishly asked the Valet parking boys and they kindly (without laughing as the Ikea building was right behind me!) instructed me how to get there. Cant really say much about the experience…it was just like walking round any Ikea, except I actually tried the famous Swedish meatballs this time…..they were ok…but not overly exciting…..they dumped enough rice on the plate to feed a small continent…and doused it in gravy before I had a chance to say CHIPS please…..GDI!.....wandered round M&S and Toys R us and headed back to the flat…..still grey and no sun….I don’t know how I managed it but I went back a COMPLETELY different way…..and before I knew it I was alongside the Burj al Arab….god, I need to turn towards the sea!!! I think I was in the Al Khail road…I saw a sign for Al Quoz and knew that wasn’t to far from my destination so I turned…OMG..now I have heard all about these labour camps…and as I progressed towards the coast I noted that there was an increase in the male Indian population and a severe lackage of females….then I saw the accommodation….OMG where the hell was I!!! sufficed to say I now know where the “labour camp”at Al Quoz is….and I didn’t hang around….had a laugh later with jean about it as she did exactly the same thing, but nearly ran out of petrol there!! hahahha….anyway got back to the flat and the weather stayed grey for the rest of the day!
I had tentatively arranged a beach party…(the first NGS sandy sausage beach party no less)….for the Saturday….but on waking up for dragon boating, AGAIN it was grey…..i headed to the marina and it didn’t improve….in fact the sky looked really evil and if thunder and lightening threatened we would be off the water! No lightening…but it did rain!!!!! RAIN!!! OMG!!!!!!!....tried to call Kath but I understand she was hibernating all day….something about UV withdrawal symptoms….i certainly was feeling it too…just stayed in the flat and text Stu to let them know we had postponed the beach BBQ till another HOTTER day arrives….the sun did finally make a show later that evening, just before it set! but that was it…..incidentally…for going back to work on the Sunday!!!, THE SUN WAS HIGH IN THE SKY AGAIN! Typical!