Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Well, the Eid Holiday and break is over. We relaxed, swam, ate out, took naps, and basically had a nice quiet week.

We're still on the hunt for a new vehicle of choice for me/mum. Sigh....I'd rather go to the dentist for a filling then deal with buying a car. I hate auto shopping.

Today's video is of the husband blowing bubble rings under Munchkin #2 in the pool. The munchkins love doing this. Daddy blows the rings, and the kids swim over them. In this instance, the husband and Munchkin #2 devised a method so the bubbles broke right over her face. Ah, simple fun.

Yesterday, we spent the entire day in Dubai at Wild Wadi Water Park. This link is for a map of the park. http://www.wildwadi.com/map/default.asp Not a cheap place. The day cost us around 800AED total. That's close to $300U.S. But, it was the cleanest and best laid out water park we've ever seen (and we've seen a lot of water parks). We were there from 8am until 4pm. After the water park, we popped on over to Madinat's 'Souq' area where we had dinner at Noodle House (Asian food, the Thai was yummy).

To detour in topic now....

I found two articles in the Gulf News about traffic accidents and driving in the region. Truly, the numbers were mind blowing. When you read the articles, Sharjah is an Emirate in the UAE. I just found a figure putting the population of Sharjah at around 750,000. http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10249832.html

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Traffic_and_Transport/10249803.html

How to fix these kinds of problems? No idea. Maybe greater respect for others on the road? Maybe not to be in such a rush all the time? But how does one impart a different way of thinking about the world and others in relation to one's self? Hmmmm....

Peace.