We packed our gear and headed off for our holiday to Fujairah, one of the Eastern Emirates. We were originally staying in a ritzy resort but they stuffed up our booking and all the other fancy places were too expensive so we ended up at the Holiday Beach Motel. Its basic but our villa is clean, quite large and right on the beach! The drive from Dubai to Fujeirah took about 3 hours due to traffic getting out of Dubai. It was very interesting seeing the buildin...

Our first family Xmas day! We ended up waking Harper as we were so eager to give him presents and play. He got some lovely presents, the best being a beautiful hand-made Pinocchio puppet that Nin & Gramps bought for him in Prague. After we had everything ready, Mum and I walked over to the Sheraton beauty salon and had our nails done.The dessert table for the Xmas buffet looked amazing! Everyone came over about 1.30/2pm and brought all sorts of food,...

Today we spent many, many hours shopping at the Mall of the Emirates. It is MASSIVE. We bought a few things and had lunch in a café next to Ski Dubai. Santa was in there and he waved to us through the window which Harper enjoyed. We arrived home with very sore feet seven hours later! Baby: Harper woke up at 5.45am so after a while, Al got up and gave him breakfast then we all went back to bed at 7.30 until after 9. He also had over an hours sleep in the...

Our first anniversary!! The traditional gift is 'paper' so Al gave me a bunch of home-made vouchers for massages, carwash etc etc. Very nice. And our son gave us a great present, he only woke once!! (of course, I woke heaps…) Mum and I took Harper for a walk in the pink stroller, it seems strange, like we are inside a building site. There are thousands of construction workers and cranes. We had a look at the amazing xmas decorations in the Sheraton and ...

We slept in until after 8 which was nice, then had breakfast in the hotel. We had thought about going to the museum but decided to stay near the hotel and walked around Chinatown instead. Found some markets where I bought a couple of skirts and a top, Al bought 'healthy balls' and we also got some beautiful chopsticks. Back to the hotel to check-out and get a transfer to the airport. We checked in then had lunch (Singapore laksa YUM!). Harper had some noodles and...