Happy Hhalloween

HEY Everybody!

SORRY for being MIA for so long - we have been in  Dubai  for the past month or so - time reeally flies!

Kush has a bunch of work here, so Meer and I have been  hanging out... toy stores, book stores with  children's reading areas, glass elevators, escalators -  those are the hot spots.  We even have a toy store with a bubble machine - so we go and play in the bubbles once or twice a day at  least!

We have even managed to meet some fellow Canadians here!  Mostly (ok - ALL) from the East Coast!!  One lady works for a company  that iis building a hospital here  for travel  tourism, and another lady is a fabulous real estate chic!  Anyway...

This morning we were playing around the business center of the hotel - it's a fancy marble aand  glass type deal, with  seating  on one side, and a suspended walkway through the center - tres chic, really.  Anyway -  Meer went running  over to his spot -  the wall  of windows with drapes behind the sofas - he  loves  to shake the snott out of the drapery  cords! 

Anyway - sitting alone on one of the sofas was this Arab woman -  covered head to toe in black.  Even her face was covered with a black  scarf.  I smiled as I ran past with Meer, and she moved a bit --  so  I  figured that was friendly!!  The she pulled the scarf up  over her head and started cooing at Meer!  Obviously she  was a grandma - she was making all these lovely soft clucking noises etc!  Anyway -  she was wearing this very  interesting thing - as I  have never seen underneath a woman's head scarf before - (forgive my ignorance please!!) - it was this beautiful golden object that coverd her mouth,  so  that when she spoke nobody  could see her lips... it is SOO  hard to explain!!!!  It also had a thin band of gold across her  forehead too.  I wish I could  explain  it better!  I told Kush about it, and he was like,  "Oh -  she's LOADED."'  (meaning  really really rich).  I  dunno!  Anyway - Meer ran off after his dad, and then  I  carried  him  back  to  say  bye too her.  I wish I spoke Arabic!!  I  don't  know what she was saying,  and it sucked.  I am  pretty  sure Salam means Hi or bye -  same as hebrew... that's what it sounded like, anyway.  So  there is a little snippet of a day-in-the-life...  you know when you are in the Middle East when... huh?? ha ha ha!!

Anyway... we are here for another week or two,  I think.

Missing you all...
Christa.