Friday, 11 March 2011

Dubai & Oz







Right sorry I have been rubbish but I'm sure you'll understand moving to the other side of the world again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. We worked out the other day that we have moved 8 times in the last 2 years plus had a baby & moved from one side of the globe and back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????? Absolutely mental courteousy of me.

Ok where do I start?. Ian arranged the trip to Dubai with the brief of I neeeeed a kitchen with a microwave so we can make/sterilise Lexi's bottles. Anyway Ian came up trumps with a stay at The Atlantis Hotel- Palm Island (that man made bit!!!). I'll prob never stay anywhere as posh again in my life!. Ian showed me the pics on the internet before we left which looked lovely however once I asked him where the mini kitchen was, I could tell by the look of horror in his face he had completely forgotten. He'd also forgotten a bed for Lexi & transport from the airport to the hotel?. He told me to trust him & it would all be alright???. When we arrived at Dubai airport we went to get a taxi, there were lots of normal looking white taxi's, howeve due to the amount of luggage we had (we were loadened up like pack horses, if anyone would of pushed us over with there little finger, it would of been like the dominoe effect,ha)....a lovely pink mobile pulled up which was larger & could fit all our rubbish in. Well Megan as you can imagine was in her element, however Ian was not so pleased.....especially when we pulled up to the flashest hotel, where there's all the Ferraris etc lined up & we pop out of the pink mobile. When we pulled up about 15 bell boys opened our doors, I felt like we were getting hijacked ha, but that is there way they are very helpful!.
Dubai was very nice apart from the hospital trip at 3am in the morning with Lexi & Megan waking up not being able to breath both due to Croup, we worked out in the first day we spent more on hospitals & medication than food!...good job we had insurance. Dubai was also very expensive (as I'm sure alot of you know). It worked out at £8 for a can of larger, therefore we were rashioned to 2 a day!...Mr McKenzie was not at all happy....therefore we thought why don't we go to the Supermarket & buy some...deeeerrrrrr, it's a muslim country therefore you need a licence to buy alcohol. The shop assisants looked at us deranged when we asked where we could buy it!...we can back with a 12 pack of coke???. In the Mall as well that was quite wierd as they all had there full on ninja suits & every man looked like the King of Dubai with there posh Tea towels on their head. I felt very under dressed, I didn't like I could only see their eyes yet they could see all of us!. All in all very good experience.
I will put more info on about Oz later, here are a few pics of our new rental, but only had camera a day so only got a few snaps. As I've been up since 5am my eyes are going bozeyed, so will update again soon.

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