Up and down

Sheikh Zayed Road

Emirates Towers

Dubai Creek. It's a pretty big creek.

Hey hey, I found one of Daisy. Trike star, Ibn Battuta Mall

We've had a rough week. Daisy has been unwell with a tummy bug since Monday which has resulted in much worry and very little sleep. She hasn't been eating and has been very sad. She's only little and is now even littler. We took her to hospital on Thursday and she checked out ok although there was some concern over her low weight. It's tough being little!

Andy has been getting frustrated with the pace of the job hunting and I've been racked with guilt about all the upheaval we are putting Daisy through.

However (and it's a good however) things improved yesterday. The Middle East is having freak weather (snow in Jordan! I keep hearing) and we awoke to a desert sandstorm. Which sounds exciting but was just lots of wind, dust flying everywhere and 38 degrees C. Despite this we headed out to the Jebel Ali Beach Club to meet Janet, David, Christopher and Oliver who are members there. Janet is a friend of one of Andy's old workmates. David is her husband, Oliver is their 11 month old son and Christopher is David's 13 year old son. The storm made things a bit dusty but we had a fabulous day lying on the beach and swimming with tennis and beer as bonuses for Andy. Daisy was feeling perkier and had a great time playing with Oliver and tearing around on the grass. Andy is now eyeing up membership.

This afternoon we headed to The Mall of the Emirates where Andy met David who was kindly donating some of his alcohol allowance to us. They sloped off to a hidden little liquor shop in the carpark whilst I got to allaying my guilt about Daisy by shopping up a storm for toys. Hurrah! One of the things I got her was a playhouse tent which she was very excited about. Andy nearly choked, pointing out we are in a one bedroom apartment but girls (even little ones) need their own space and she loves it.

We are now enjoying some of today's sneaky booze shopping. It's Mother's Day tomorrow and Andy has just said he'll amuse Daisy so I can have a lie in as a Mother's Day treat. Yay! Now where is that bottle of wine....

Oh no! Disaster strikes. I've just gone to download some photos and can't as the camera isn't compatible with Windows Vista which we have on the new laptop. Andy is trying to find a work round but in the meantime, here some pictures of some buildings. Wicked.

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