Weekend Report

We had a great weekend following a great Thanksgiving. Friday we went to church, or at least most of church. We ran into my friend Kim outside and chatted for a while, so we missed a little bit of mass. After mass we headed to the Abu Dhabi Gold Club and had lunch at the club house outside overlooking the course. It was really nice, but the service was terrible. They were hosting a craft bazaar at the golf course, so after we ate, we walked around to see some local crafts. Really neat stuff and we even picked up a few Christmas gifts. Then we headed to the Exhibition Center for the Date Palm Festival. We really enjoyed that. The set up date palms for people to climb...very interesting. They also had areas with women doing local crafts like basket weaving and hena (temporary tatoos on hands). We had a great day. We got home in time to eat leftover turkey for dinner and enjoy a family bike ride throughout the compound. Saturday, we hung around the house mostely. We are having a lots of problems with our water and we lost water for the 4th time this week on Saturday. So we were watching the guys yet again pump out the water from the pump house because it flooded, etc etc. My backyard AKA garden is currently sporting a big hole due to the service company trying to prevent this problem from happening. Well since they started working, it has gotten worse. We ate out for dinner Saturday night at the golf club next door to our compound. It was my first time to go there and I was really impressed. Plus, they have all you can eat sushi on Monday nights. Yum. I can see ourselves going there a lot. Well that is about all that happened over the weekend and now we are starting our week. This weeks agenda: plan Evelyn's class Christmas party and Christmas shopping.

19 days until we come home!!!

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: National Day is this week here in the UAE. It is the day that they celebrate the birth of this contry. This year is their 39th anniversary. They have fresh flowers planted everywhere and lots of lights for the event. They are going to have a big military parade up the island and a huge firework show over the corniche.

Thanksgiving 2010

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I would first like to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving. We are so thankful for all of our blessings. We are especially thankful for all of our family and friends. We feel like we are the luckiest family to have so many people who love and care about us. Thanks so much to all of you who have supported us this year with our big move. We could not have survived it without all of your love, support, and prayers. I have to thank God as well for all of my blessing he has given me: a wonderful husband and two precious little girls. God is good.

We had a great Thanksgiving. The girls and I worked today to prepare our mini Thanksgiving Feast and Lance worked. He was not planning on going to work today, but there were some last minute things that came up and he was needed. All is well, I did not see why he needed to take the day off on our account, we spent the evening together eatting and hanging out as a family. I have to give myself a pat on the back over my menu. Lance does not like most of the traditional Thanksgiving food, but I tried to stick to the usuals. I had roasted turkey breast and gravy, mashed potatoes, rice dressing, green bean casserole, rolls, and dessert: bread pudding. It all turned out really well. Everyone liked the dinner as well. As you can see in the pictures, we taste tested the bread pudding before dinner and ate almost half the dish. Lance loves bread pudding.

While the girls and I were waiting for Lance to get home we watched Julie and Julia. That move is so cute and I really liked it. If you have not seen it you need to. I could relate the Julie because it is a story about her writing a blog. Really cute. But I was super super excitted to see that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade come on TV here. I just could not believe it. In fact I told several people about thanksgiving and how we always watch that parade in the morning. The girls were loving the parade and were dancing and Camille was screming at the TV.

I do miss seeing you all today, but I am not depressed because we will be home in 3 weeks from tomorrow. Wow that is coming up quick. I do miss reading the huge sales ads today though. It was always fun to see the amazing sales that were going to happen on Black Friday. Well I guess I can check them out on line.

After we ate supper and skyped some of you, we started putting our Christmas decorations up. We have a small tree compared to my four that I had in Katy. We only brought 2 containers of decorations and left 20 boxes behind in storage. I brought tree ortaments, stocking, nativity scene, and my dad's letter he wrote to santa when he was 10. I have to admit I am releaved that I don't have to do all of that decorating this year. I used to spent one or two weekends putting everything together inside and out for the holidays. Although, I really love to decorate and to look at the results, I am excitted to not have all of that work to do. Just relax and enjoy the holiday. The girls were so cute in helping with the tree. We did have a few ortaments get broken. Camille mistaked a ball ortament for a real ball and she threw it on the ground like it was going to bounce. That was the first casulty of the night and 3 more followed. We ooooud and aaaud at all of the ortaments and talked about everyone and how pretty they were. It was just so cute how the girls got so excitted.

We had a great Thanksgiving and we hope you did too.

The past weekend was really plesent. We got up, got ready and went to church Friday morning, but when we arrived we found out that they were not having that mass on that day. The next mass was an hour later and was in Philipino language. I guess we got an A for effert. We then headed to Dubai to go check out the Dubai Garden Center. We stopped at a small mall for lunch and ended up staying there all day. We didn't make it to the garden center, but I did buy my Christmas tree. Yeah, we will be putting it up later this week. Saturday we relaxed at home. I pulled out all of the girl's winter clothes and washed them. It took me two days to get them all clean. So today I cleaned Camille's closet and took out all of the clothes she out grew etc etc.

There are a lot of kids Evelyn's age in the hood and now that the weather is nice they are all playing in the street in the evening. This is so great. I am so glad that Evelyn has made so many friends and they all can play together. I am liking were we chose to live more and more each day. I think I am even getting used to the drive into the city.

We are so excitted to come in for the holidays and we are counting down the days until we come...24 from today.

We don't have any big plans for Thanksgiving. I am going to cook a small feast for us on the big turkey day. Also this week, Abu Dhabi is having a Date Palm Festival that I plan to go check out as well as another craft Bazaar on Friday. Well that is what is going on over here pretty much.

I would like to request all of my friends and family to please pray for Lance's grandfather AKA: Grumps. He had open heart surgery 2 weeks ago and last week had a set back that sent him back to surgery as well as ICU. We are thinking about him and our family every day. He is doing better now, and we hope that every day gets better and better for him. We love you Grumps.

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: Last week I bought some pants at a store that were a little too long. No problem they said, they have a seamstress that can take them up for you. Apparently this is a common thing, when you go to a store if the clothes don't fit right, they can alter them for you. Talk about service.

The girls

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Here are just some random pictures of the girls over the last week. We have had a great time this week. Evelyn was out of school for the Eid Holiday and Lance had most of the week off. One thing you would all like to know is that we made our flight reservations for the holiday break. We will arrive in Houston on Friday, December 17th. We will be in for over two weeks and hope to visit and see all of you during that time. We miss everyone and can not wait to see you.

Following this post I made several posts today. The last one is the Formula One post. If you do not reach that one, click the "older posts" button on the bottom right and it will bring up more. Hope you enjoy.

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: It is true that the local people are very family oriented and they enjoy the simple things, like spending time together. That is one of the main things that Eid is all about, seeing as many people as you can...as one of Lance's co-workers explained to me. Well now the temperature is pleasent outside. Only down to the 60's. In the evenings now in any park or grassy area families and friends will join and BBQ. It is a real strange sight for us to see people sitting on lawn chairs along side of the road in a circle eatting and visiting. But they don't care were they are, they just care that they are together. That is kind of how we feel about us living here, so far away from home. We don't care really were we are, as long as we are together. That is what makes me the happiest anyways, being with my husband and two precious girls. Living here and experiencing everyday with them is undescribable!

We've gone coocoo for CoCo Puffs

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This past week since Evelyn was out of school, we volunteered to take the class guinea pig, CoCo Puffs, home and take care of her. We have absolutely loved having her and the girls have really enjoyed her. Well, Evelyn has enjoyed her, Camille is not too sure about her. Evelyn gets to take her out of her cage once a day and let CoCo Puffs roam around in her room. The door is closed ofcourse or Ruffles and Fraizer would have CoCo Puffs for lunch. The guinea pig is soo sweet and never bites. She is pretty easy to take care of as well. This was a good experience for us because Evelyn wants to buy a small pet with her Christmas money after we get back. (This will give her something to look forward to when we get back) At first she thought she wanted fish, then maybe a guinea pig, but now she wants something smaller than a guinea pig. Perhaps hampsters. We looked at some at a pet store this week and I told her she would not be able to take them out of the cage like CoCo because they may get lost (they are very active) but she really like them and loves how they run on a wheel and climb through a tunnel. Well CoCo Puff has been a delight and she will return back to the classroom on Sunday.

Evelyn Grocery Shopping

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I usually grocery shop on sundays when Evelyn is at school. Same routine as when we were home, just Sunday instead of Monday. Well the past two Sundays Evelyn was off from school. I decided to use this time as a opportunity for learning and something to keep her interest while we are shopping. She looked through a book at home and made her shopping list. She copied the words by the pictures of the things she needed to get at the store. Then we loaded up her grocery cart and headed to Carrefour. She pushed it all through the store along side me and got all of the things on her list. We had a great time doing this and Evelyn felt empowered because she could do it as well. I am really proud of her.

Al Ain

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So all this week Evelyn was off of school and Lance had most of the week off as well due to the Eid Holiday. We hung around the house mostly and relaxed, but on Wednesday we decided to make a day trip to Al Ain. It is about 1 1/2 hour drive from our house. A good analogy would be Al Ain is to Abu Dhabi and Beaumont is to Houston. Al Ain hold a special place in the hearts of the local people because it is the birth place of Sheik Zayed, the father of the UAE and the man who had vision for the future of the UAE. We found Al Ain to be suprisingly beautiful. Every street was lined with trees and folage. Every round about of intersection had a fountain of statue. The street lights were black rod iron like New Orleans. Also, alone the side of the city is a mountain, Jebel Hafeet, whick you can drive a windy road up it and there is a hotel on top. We picked a great place to visit, but we pick the wrong time to go. Because it was Eid, everyone was off and everyone was vacationing. Al Ain also has a zoo that is associated with the San Diego Zoo and that was our first stop. The zoo was suprisingly pretty good. Not all of the animals you would see at Houston, but nicely layed out. The only problem was the crowdedness. I didn't now if the stinch was coming from the animals of the people around us. Ewwww. I did get aggrivated twice when adult would move infront of my girls to see an animal when we were patiently waiting our turn. The girls had a really good time and we even ate snow cones. After we left the zoo, we headed to drive up the mountain. It was perfect timing just before sunset. Well so did everyone else, the traffic line was rediculously too long and we would never have made it up the mountain. We decided to come back another time to drive up the moutain. We then headed to the Al Ain Mall because there were several signs around town advertising a circus act at the mall. We saw a clown act while we ate our supper (Pizza Hut). Then we had some delicious ice cream at this old timey looking ice cream parlor. The girls loved it. By this time it was dark and we headed back home. We had a great time in Al Ain and we will be back.

Formula 1

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This past Sunday we enjoyed our evening at the Yar Marina Circiut at the Formula One Championship race. It was soo exhilirating. You can not believe the energy and excitement that overcomes you just being there. The cars are louder than you could ever imagine. They gave us some ear plugs that did help some, but we could not carry any type of conversation during the race. We had perfect seats that were right at the start and finish lines. On top of that we looked right onto the pit area, so we saw all of the action. The race track was beautiful and passed by a marina that had larger than life yaghts parkes along side the track with people watching from them. The track also ran through the Yas Hotel. The Yas Island were all of this took place and were the new indoor Ferrari World lives is only about 15 minutes drive from our house. Due to the masses of people coming to this event, we had to drive in the opposite direction to catch a shuttle bus to bring us there. It took about one hour just to get there. The race was hard to follow because we could not hear the commentator over the car noise and the screnes were difficult to read. It was pretty neat to see the cars pit and change tires. It would only take them 5-7 seconds to change all four tires. After the race was over we walked to the arena to watch Prince. He put on a pretty good show, but we didn't stay until the end. I wanted to hear Purple Rain, but opted to beat the crowd out instead. Plus we had been gone all after noon and I wanted to go home to see about the girls. By the way they did great. My Emirate neighbors had Evelyn over to play part of the time the sitter was here. Everything went great. We will definately be back to see the race next year and this time I am going to try to follow the races leading up to the final.

Our Church

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Above are some pictures from the past and some from the present. I ran across a few picture I haven't posted from Melinda and Dennis's trip. You will also see a few picture of Dragon Mart. I spoke about that in the past, that is were you can buy just about anything. We got some drapes from there.

Then you will see some picture of our church. I can not describe why it has been hard to get motivated to go to church here. I can just say that it is different. Our first trip to church kind of spoiled it for us because we went at the most crowded time and Camille was tired on top of that. there is no cry room, so we thought, how are we going to do this. Every time we go now it just gets easier and better. We have gone to different times and even some that were held in the hall. We have always stood in the back of the church because we have Camille in the stroller and it is so crowded. We may not be exactly on time every time, but we make it there. I posted some picture of the church and hall on the above link so check it out. What is so crazy about this place is it is located on the "churches area" this is the only area in abu dhabi that has any other religion other than Muslim. Although, right next door to the catholic church is a muslim mosque. There is also a episcopal church and a church of England. Everyone prayinga and worshiping on harmony in one block. It is pretty amazing. We are so lucky to be in a country that allows other religions to practice.

Well on Friday we went to the morning mass and then went to the Al Raha Beach Hotel were I read that they have a lunch buffet. It was fantastic. There was everything on the buffet you could imagine....lobster, crab, lamb, Indian food, Lebenese food, etc. There was even a seperate buffet for children. No, this is not like Golden Coral. It was really really nice. A view of the water, live music, even entertainment for the kids. I have pictures for you to see. Oh and the desert buffet was so beautiful. I could have ate it all.

After we ate lunch, we went to Dubai to pick up my living room drapes we ordered last weekend. Today we hung around the house and hung drapes. We booked our flights to come in for the holidays. Then we had reservations tonight to eat with some customers of Lance's who are coming in for the Formula One race, but there were running way too late for dinner. We already had a babysitter, so Lance and I ate dinner together. We had a nice and quiet evening.

So this weekend is the big Grand Prix Formula One Championship race. Courtesy of Lance's work we are going tomorrow for the final race and to see Prince in concert. The race is over 3 days and there is concerts all over the city. The city is hopping with things to do for the Formula One. I will take pics for all of you to see. I am really excitted to go and experience it. I don't know if I am as excitted to see Prince, but it should be entertaining. My babysitter, Anna, is not availabe tomorrow, so I have been in a dilema to find a babysitter. I did find someone today though and it will all work out.

Evelyn is out of school all of next week because it is the second Eid holiday for the Muslims. Many people take vacations during this week break. We thought about going somewere close, but decided to lay cool this week. We are going to take some day trips to places near by and maybe work in the garden aka flower beds.


WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: No one can own a home here except the locals, so everyone rents. Rent is very high and is paid one year in advance. To live in an appartment or villa (house) that is comparable to the average home in the US, you would spend around 200,000 AED per year which is a little less than $55,000 US.

Weekend report

Well sorry again about the delay in my blog. Yet again, I had internet problems, then Lance had to take my computer to work because his was sent off to the States for updating from the company. So as for now we are back on track.

We had a nice weekend last weekend. Thursday was our parent teacher conference with Evelyn's teacher and that went well. We have some plans in order for her teacher to send things home from school so we can work with her at home. Evelyn is not interested in the lessons all of the time at school because she is more interested in socializing. We are working on helping her to understand how to pay attention and when is the correct time to play and not. Thursday evening we attended one of Evelyn's classmates birthday party. It was at this place called Fun City and imaging chuky cheese on steroids. There are small roller coasters, games, jumps, etc. Lots of fun. After playing then they put on a show for the kids with costumed characters. The kids loved it and had a really great time. I was able to visit with some other moms from the class and we had a great discussion about all things in general.

Friday we all slept in (except for Evelyn who stays on school timing and never sleeps past 7 am) we relaxed and did things around the house. We then went to 5:30 pm mass. We have not gone to church as often as we should to be perfectly honest. It is all together a different enviroment which makes it more challenging to get motivated to go. We decided to go to this mass, because it is in the hall and we thought it may be a better atmosphere for our kids. The biggest challenge with church is that there is no cry room or nursery. It makes it very difficult to pay attention when you are trying to entertain a toddler for one hour. This time we decided to bring Camille in her stroller, which worked out PERFECTLY. She stays quiet and more managable when she is contained in her stroller. The girls looked at books and ate cracker and we made it through mass. Next weekend we are going to try the morning children's mass to see if that is better for us. After mass we went out to dinner at this upscale Mexican Restaurant. The atmosphere was great and the girls loved the live enterainment, but the food was not so great. Don't think we will go back.

Sunday we went to Dubai and back to Dragon Mart. It is like Harwin Street in a mall. This is the place to get drapes for a very resonable price. And that we did. We got the remaining needed drapes for our house: master bed, game room, and living room. We have 4 windows in the living room and the drapes are not going to be ready until this coming weekend so we will return to pick them up. The other rooms were made that day and we brought them home with us. Talk about fast service. The best part was the price. We bought our master bed drapes and game room drapes for $80 US total. Now the fabric may not have been what I would have picked in the states, but it matches and looks stylish. This is a temporary home, so why spend a lot of money? Our four windows in the living room...we got panels and sheers to go behind them...we spent $260 US total. Great shopping day in Dubai

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: When local men here greet one another, esp if they are good friends of relatives they rub noses, like eskimos. It is really funny to see them do this.

Breakfast Club

A few moms came over this morning for coffee, tea, and treats. We are all new to Abu Dhabi and it is fun to compare stories and share our discoveries. We all really enjoy visiting and half of the day is over before we know it. Most of us have a toddler, so the kids play while we chat. Evelyn had a playdate with some kids in her class today after school. We just stayed at school and let the kids play on the playground. Camille played on the playground as well and she had a great time. Both girls were exhausted by the time we got home and I had to carry them both inside. Evelyn is now off for a 4 day weekend. We have parent teacher conference day tomorrow and on Sunday (remember our weekend is on friday and saturday). Lance and I are going to meet with Evelyn's teacher tomorrow afternoon while Anna watches the girls.

What is different in Abu Dhabi: For some reason, and I just don't know why, but most of the locals cover their car seats in plastic. It is like they didn't take the plastic cover from the factory off. I don't know if they are trying to keep the seats clean or do they want everyone to think their vehicle is brand new because it still has the plastic. I surely wouldn't want to sit on a seat covered with plastic on a got summer day. Talk about sticky.

Halloween 2010

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The Delcambres in Abu Dhabi

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Candy

This is Camille digging in the goody bag after Trick or Treating. Too funny.


Today I went to a playgroup at St. Andrew's church for the first time. It was all Westerners, some UK and some American. That made it nice. It was pretty good. The kids just free played and they had several different stations to choose from...obstical course, kitchen, craft table, train, books and puzzles, etc. We had a nice time and I could see us going back regularly.

Tomorrow I am expecting a couple of moms to come over in the morning for coffee and breakfast. We all have toddlers and are all pretty new to Abu Dhabi. I am serving coffee, tea, arabic tea, monkey break, chocolate croussants, and fruit. It should be good. Evelyn has another playdate after school tomorrow. This time it is at the school on the playground with a lot of other class mates. Just time for us parents to visit and let the kiddos play.

We have all come down with a small cold this week and Evelyn lost her voice yesterday. That still hasn't stopped her as you can imagine. No fever, just a little stopped up nose. We are all taking some over the counter sinus medicine coutesy of Melinda bringing us a stock on her last trip. They do have medicine here, but it is not familiar to me and i am unsure of the dosage for the girls. I am just sticking with what I know for now. It seems to be working well and we are all getting better everyday.

Happy Halloween Everyone

Sorry about the delay in posts, but you would be so suprised to know that I had internet problems. Not only could I not fix it, but I did not have the password to connect to our server. We received our password when we openned the account, but I put the card with the password in a location that I would always know were it was...in my wallet. Well you know the rest...my wallet got stollen and now I don't have the password. On top of it all they will not tell you your password, you have to go to the etisilat building and pay for a new one. And of course the account is in Lance's name which means they would not give me a new one. I had to wait for Lance to get home from Oman and he went to get a new password. So now here I am finally blogging. I am going to run a recap on the past week of events.

Last weekend: We went to the Abu Dhabi beach for the first time. It was very nice, except it was pretty crowded. We made the mistake of going on a Friday which is everyone's day off. The beach was packed and we were the minority nationality on the beach. I think we could have went to other beach areas and even paid to go to the beach and we would have seen more of our kid of peeps. Needless to say we were the main attraction on the beach and some people were even taking pictures of us. I kind of felt like I was a celebrity. It is obvious some of them do not swim often because they did not have appropriate swim wear...unless you want to call swimming in underwear appropriate. We had a great time anyways. We ended our evening walking the cornich and eatting beach side at an Italian restaurant. Saturday we did some shopping for the house.

Last Sunday: I went to breakfast with a friend from Evelyn's school. It was three of us ladies and our little kiddos. We visited for quite a while and the kids played. We are going to try to do it more often at each other's house...infact they are all coming over to our house this Wednesday after dropping off the kids at school.

Last Monday: It was one of those super accomplishing days. I did lots of errands and got lots done. The hilight of the day was finding some things at Spinneys(grocery store) that I haven't seen in a while...jiffy cornbread mix (got 4 boxes)and Weight Watchers chocolate muffins ($7 US per box of 3).

Last Tuesday: Hung out at home...laudry etc. Remeber Lance is out of town this week, he left on sunday and will return Thursday. He was in oman. I called the internet company for tech support while Camille was napping this day. I got this nice man from Pakistan on the phone...he thought he would take that opportunity to educate me on Islam and what is wrong with the world today. I was on the phone for over an hour with this man and needless to say...no internet....it was one of the most interesting conversations by far and it is one for the books.

Last Wednesday: Anna come over early and watched Camille while I brought evelyn to school. After class began, Evelyn's class helped me make a life sized scarecrow. They had a great time and they were so proud that they had made it. It looked great at our booth and we moved him by their garden after the festival was over.

Last Thursday: I set up the booth for the Fall festival with some help of others in the morning. Camille came with me and hung out in her stroller most of the time. she was a trouper. After we finished the booth (we were hot and swetty) I took Evelyn out of school early. That way she could go home and rest for the fall festival and it would save me a trip back to pick her up. We all went home ate lunch and rested, then picked Lance up at the airport. Lance was able to catch a flight home earlier than scheduled. THANK GOD! we all got ready and went to the fall Festival. I have to say that it was the best Fall Festival I have ever seen. The entire school was decorated. The night began with the kids parading in by class showing off their costumes. Then they all went to play games at the booths. It was so big, I didn't see it all. I worked our class booth most of the night because none of the parents signed up to work the booth. Only two helped the entire night. I think most people here are not used to doing for themselves being most everyone has a house maid, so why would they work a booth at the school festival? We had a great night anyways.

Friday: Evelyn and I met one of her classmates, her mother, and her sister at the Abu Dhabi National Theater for Sleeping Beauty. We were so excitted to go and especially be with some friends. But I can honestly say it was the worst play I have ever been to. I think highschool plays are better than that. It was a UK cast and the humor was not appropriate for kids. It wasn't even the story of Sleeping Beauty, it was a lot of odd scits. It is hard for me to explain, but I could have wanted my money back. The best part was visiting with our friends.

Saturday: Another weekend day of shopping in Abu Dhabi. We thought we might go to Dubai, but opted to stay in town.

Sunday: Halloween. One of the Sheiks of another emirate died this past friday and in likes of that, there is to be no celebrations, parties, dancing, etc for one week in respect for him and the morners. This is a custom here in the UAE. We had a scheduled party at our clubhouse for Halloween, but it was reschedule for this coming friday. We still Trick or Treated as well as everyone else in the hood, including Emirates. My Emirate neighbor's son and their maid walked around with us to trick or treat. The girls had the best time. Camille caught on to the routine and was begging for candy like all of the kids. She even managed to get some of the candy out of the wrapper while riding in her wagon from door to door. As respect to those who do not celebrate Halloween, the compound handed out papers of pumpkins to tape onto your door if you wanted to participate. We did not have any problem with handing out all of our candy, infact we ran out pretty early in the night. That is OK, we rather all be together trick or treating. It was a great night. You wouldn't believe how many kids were out trick or treating with their nannies. That is not right. The parents can't bring their own kids to trick or treat? Most of them were emirate kids that had their nannies with them.

Today: Well after a night of trick or treating we all woke up this morning with a cold. Yep, everyone but Ruffles and Fraizer. That actually is pretty good for us, Lance and Evelyn ususally have lots of hayfever by now. No hay...No hay fever. Lance had a big international petroleum conference today. Evelyn went home with her classmate (and secret admiror) Jeebu after school for a playdate. She stayed for a while and I picked her up before supper time. They had a great time. They live in a nice appartment with a view of the water.

Tomorrow: I am going to meet some of my breakfast club moms (that is what I call them) at a church playgroup tomorrow morning. I am really excitted to check it out. It is time for me to get some organized playdates or something for Camille.

After viewing other blogs, I realized how sad my appears. I am currently working on updating the looks of my blog. Stay tuned your going to like it....