2010 Delcambre Abu Dhabi Christmas

CLICK THE ABOVE PICTURE TO VIEW MORE

We had a great week last week. Plans are in the making for Evelyn's school Christmas party and Lance's work christmas party. Both I am working on. Imagine that. I hope you enjoy the pictures of the house decorated. It is way less than what we are used to doing for the holidays, but we decided to only bring the minimal here and leave the rest in storage. 20 boxes went to storage to be exact. To be honest it is really nice not to have to do alllll of that decorating. We have really enjoyed our tree and decorations.

Last Thursday was National day here. The day 39 years ago the UAE became a country. You would not believe how patriot these people are here. In the pictures above I put some pics of my neighbors car. Lots of people decorate their vehicles for the day. That night they ride around the city honking, etc. They even spray some kind of foam spray and silly string on eveyone. There was also a big fireworks show on the corniche. We did see some extreme cars that day. One had a giant teddy bear on top, some covered completely with feather boas in the nations colors, etc. We did not join in the festivities on the island that night because we heard it was too wild and Lance had lots of work to do anyhow. We did join a party at the club house and it was very nice. The locals brought food for everyone to tast and the kids played games.

We had a 4 day weekend this weekend. Thursday was National Day, Friday and Saturday the weekend, and Sunday was a muslim religious day. Lance worked at home most of the weekend while the girls and I hung out. Evelyn played with the neighborhood kids mostly. Lance is preparing for his end of the year board meeting and trying to get all of the reports together. Yesterday, however, (saturday) we went to Dubai. We went to a really nice souk to do some Christmas shopping and then we went to one of lance's co-workers home for BBQ. We had a great time. They have two girls and the kids played soo good. They have a very nice house with a pool and they can see the burj khalifa from their house (tallest building in the world) as well as the sailboat hotel that I can not remember the name of.

So that brings us to today. Evelyn has the day off and so did Lance, but he opted to go to work so he could work on the end of the year stuff. The girls and I are hanging out while some workers are repairing our water pump issue in the back. We are going to go sign Evelyn up for dance today and that will start when we get back from the holidays. Plus we are going grocery shopping. Nothing too excitting. Dad, I wished you were here to see what they are doing in our backyard. They have some torch thing. I have no idea what they are doing. I will have to take pics for you.

We are beyond excitted to be going home soon. 12 days from today to be exact. We just can not wait.

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN ABU DHABI: Well I have been pleasently supprised how their is lots of Christmas here. Esp since it is a primarily muslim country. You can even buy a real tree and I saw real poinsettas at the store yesterday. Lots of the hotels have christmas tree lightings and concerts as well. We are going to see santa next weekend at the school's Breakfast with Santa event.