Well, if I've learned anything from this entire blogging experience, it's that whining in a public forum works! My last post was laced with self-pity and self-doubt because of the dearth of comments over the last few months, and voila, a veritable plethora of responses. Most of them seemed to mock me, but even a bad review means that someone's read what you've written!
An art project at the local gallery. Because we all needed poster sized prints of our heads.
The big event of the last couple of weeks was National Day. For those of you not closely following the news of the region, the UAE celebrated its 40th birthday with parades, and fireworks and displays of all sorts. Being the 40th, festivities were spread over three days instead of the usual one. It's hard to describe the fervour and pride the people here feel in their country. There's really nothing like it. Try imagining the 4th of July combined with New Years Day, with a dash of Halloween mixed in and then multiply the intensity of it by a factor of ten and you get a sense of the energy that pervades the air.
To celebrate we donned our red, white, green and black and strolled the streets. We also travelled out to Sadyaat Island to visit the UAE pavillion they had brought back from the World Expo in China last year. It was a great portrait of the country's history and culture all housed in a pretty incredible building. Then off to the light show at the Grand Mosque.
The gallery at night.
So begins the party.
Yes, that is a video projector mounted to the roof of that SUV.
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As you can see, pretty spectacular.
Miranda tested for her green belt this week which proved to be a great excuse for a date for Julie and I (amazing how those things slip by with everything else going on). We were also able to attend a Christmas recital for Liam yesterday. It was gratifying to see the level of some of the players at his music institute. We feel very fortunate to live so close to such a quality institution. Carolyn, his teacher in Nova Scotia, is about as irreplaceable as they come, and although we haven't been able to replicate that music experience, we have found a teacher that's able to push Liam and Lucy to both excel in their playing.
A little picnic before the recital. Sometimes I don't know what world or time we're living in.
I'm always so happy when I actually get into one of these shots.
I have to say, with all your whining last time, I was expecting a little more reciprocity in the world of blog comments! Maybe you should get Carolyn to move to UAE to teach!
I love the poster size pictures of the kids heads!! That's amazing stuff! I'm having trouble actually posting on these blog sites, so its not that we don't read, or that we don't care, its just that we can't remember our passwords or accounts... because some of us just aren't google people. We miss you though! And we love seeing the pictures and hearing about the daily adventures.
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That picture of you and Julie is stunning. Well... more Julie than you, but I think you already knew that ;)
I have to say, with all your whining last time, I was expecting a little more reciprocity in the world of blog comments! Maybe you should get Carolyn to move to UAE to teach!
I love the poster size pictures of the kids heads!! That's amazing stuff! I'm having trouble actually posting on these blog sites, so its not that we don't read, or that we don't care, its just that we can't remember our passwords or accounts... because some of us just aren't google people. We miss you though! And we love seeing the pictures and hearing about the daily adventures.
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