Star Struck

I am so happy to see my husband home and now my parents can see were we have been living for the past 7 months.

We had an excitting day this past Friday. We went the the Skeik Zayed Grand Mosque to show mom and dad and we ran into Jermain Jackson. It was unbelievable. We were on a tour and I kept looking at him thinking...I know that guy. And then it hit me...I think he is Micheal Jackson's brother. I thought he was Jermain and I wondered..was he just a guy that looks like him and does he get that all of the time. So I told Lance and he asked him "Are you part of the Jackson family" He extended his hand to Lance and introduced his self "I'm Jermain" WOW. We spoke with him breifly, but he told us that he was recording in Dubai and thinking about moving here to Abu Dhabi. His wife is from Afganistan and they are in this region all of the time. It was suprising that we were in this mosque full of people and he went unidentified. He then offered to take a picture with us and asked Lance for his contact information. WOW what a day. Who knows Jermain Jackson could be my neighbor.

The mosque was beautifula and mom and dad really enjoyed it. We have also brought them to see the Emirates Palace and Heritage Village. You will see some pictures at the end of the slide show of when we went to Heritage Village.

At the beginning of the pictures you will see pictures of Evelyn at school. Those are from International Day. All of the kids dressed up like thier native country. Since we are from Texas, Evelyn dressed in her "DOn't mess with Texas" tshirt, cowgirl hat, bandana, and boots. Camille wore her outfit as well. It was so amazing to see all of the different countries and costumes. The entire Elementry School had an assembly that morning and Evelyn's class got up and sang "Rainbow World" It could have made me cry. SO Beautiful. The past two weeks in class Evelyn and her classmates have been discovering each other's countries. They made passports and each day they "travel" to a different country. On USA day, I brought a slide show of Texas images for everyone to see. International day and week were a lot of fun. Now Evelyn really amazes me, she knows all of the different countries. Even last weekend she was pretending that her and her daughter (Camille) were from Syria and they were flying to Egypt. I was to ticket lady who they bought their tickets from. Never would she had know about those countries if she did not have this opportunity. Too Cool.