Ang, just cant bear to be away from Dubai……
My friend is back after her brief visit in October, for a sample of some more sunny weather!
We popped over to some friends at the Greens end of Dubai to have a chin wag and a Thai Curry. That’s a new one for me, but totally lush when I got used to the slight burning in my mouth. Will definitely have one again!!!! Was great to catch up with everyone, our lives have certainly been eventful!
The Plan for Friday was set out in outline….If sunny = Pool, if cloudy = BIG BUS TOUR!
Well it didn’t take long for us to realize on getting up the later of the two options was favourable!!!
http://www.bigbustours.com/dub/html/dub_our_tours.html
Drove to MOE and met Ang. Didn’t know until then that they had a fountain!!! And we were treated to a water show to the mission impossible music….pretty impressive!!!
It was on off sunny and quite humid so it felt warm in the morning. Although a little blowy on the top of the bus!!!. There was this random chap that obviously got a video camera for Christmas….he was pulling off some dangerous stunts!!!! Standing on seats to get a good view, as if sitting on top of the double decker was not enough. I though to be safe I would move to the back seat to be well away from him OH YEAH and get some good shots of the architecture, and would you believe it he came to the back too! I WAS TRAPPED!…….i think what did it for us was his PURE VENOM hat!!!!! Honestly I feel sorry for anyone who has to sit though his film!!!! A NON STOP film driving down the Sheik Zayed Road!!!!
We got to see the piers going up for the Dubai Metro Red line! They are fast progress getting them up!
We hopped off the blue bus for a bite to eat and then onto the red bus to get a tour round the famous sights of central Dubai at one of the cross over points. It was at his point it started to deteriorate!!!! The weather that is……
Rain, Lightening and Thunder made for an interesting afternoon, especially on an open top bus!!!!!!!
I don’t think I can remember a day that I have laughed soooooo much.
This poor guy……………he bought a rain mac!!! Well, one of those plastic bin liner types that you get at fun parks before getting on a water ride!!!! You know the type, thin and flimsey……..well he sat across the aisle from CJD……and for some reason unbeknown to Ang and I, she was wetting herself!!!!
She had been watching this guy for about 5 mins. He was single handedly battling away with his polythene flag! That’s what it turned into as the buffeting wind on the top deck made it almost impossible to control and guide over his head….WELL that was it wasn’t it…….ang and I once we had noticed were in fits of hysterics…..we must have put the tour lady off her speech but we couldn’t control ourselves and were laughing so hard there was nothing we could do……it made us even worse when over the tannoy she said, “I know what your laughing at” as she stifled a snigger!!! CJD came to the rescue, admitted to the bloke that she had been unable to control herself for the previous 10mins but felt so bad that she had to help him…..as soon as she did it was like a release valve and the whole top deck of the bus erupted into a brief laugh!!! Making sure he had it on the right way, we were able to control our selves again! And continue with the tour….. Until………the rain….like monsoon season in the tropics……..us/topdeck/no waterproof well that was it…..more laughter….WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT ON AN OPEN BUS TOUR AT THE TOP GETTING WET!!!!! Couldn’t believe it….we jumped off at the gold souk to show Ang the shops while in there the heavens well an truly opened…..I managed to haggle between two guys for the cheapest 2 unbrellas I have ever bought! Walking back to the bus feeling quite smug a crack of thunder ripped through the sky right above us…..PROPER made us jump….i even ducked, it was sooo loud!. We still had about 2 hours left on the tour……well, that was until we got stuck in the traffic associated with the welcome back for the UAE footie team! They won the gulf cup! CARS, QUADS, FLAGS, BALLOONS, SPRAY PAINT, STREAMERS, people sat on car roofs, bonnets, hanging off the side, the backs……much wheel spinning and back firing…but I tell you what some of those cracks were not the sound of backfiring!!!! I reckon there must have been some sort of starting pistol/ guns around……I will try to upload the videos…it was like nothing I had ever seen before….and definitely made the 2.5hour delay worth it.
VIDEO REMOVED AS IT WONT WORK AT THE MO!!!! will sort it out....i promise!
Eventually got back to MOE picked up the car and went to our friends house…a bit worried of what our journey home would be like.
After short chin wag and a cuppa we left and surprisingly the journey was TOTALLY uneventful!
My friend is back after her brief visit in October, for a sample of some more sunny weather!
We popped over to some friends at the Greens end of Dubai to have a chin wag and a Thai Curry. That’s a new one for me, but totally lush when I got used to the slight burning in my mouth. Will definitely have one again!!!! Was great to catch up with everyone, our lives have certainly been eventful!
The Plan for Friday was set out in outline….If sunny = Pool, if cloudy = BIG BUS TOUR!
Well it didn’t take long for us to realize on getting up the later of the two options was favourable!!!
http://www.bigbustours.com/dub/html/dub_our_tours.html
Drove to MOE and met Ang. Didn’t know until then that they had a fountain!!! And we were treated to a water show to the mission impossible music….pretty impressive!!!
It was on off sunny and quite humid so it felt warm in the morning. Although a little blowy on the top of the bus!!!. There was this random chap that obviously got a video camera for Christmas….he was pulling off some dangerous stunts!!!! Standing on seats to get a good view, as if sitting on top of the double decker was not enough. I though to be safe I would move to the back seat to be well away from him OH YEAH and get some good shots of the architecture, and would you believe it he came to the back too! I WAS TRAPPED!…….i think what did it for us was his PURE VENOM hat!!!!! Honestly I feel sorry for anyone who has to sit though his film!!!! A NON STOP film driving down the Sheik Zayed Road!!!!
We got to see the piers going up for the Dubai Metro Red line! They are fast progress getting them up!
We hopped off the blue bus for a bite to eat and then onto the red bus to get a tour round the famous sights of central Dubai at one of the cross over points. It was at his point it started to deteriorate!!!! The weather that is……
Rain, Lightening and Thunder made for an interesting afternoon, especially on an open top bus!!!!!!!
I don’t think I can remember a day that I have laughed soooooo much.
This poor guy……………he bought a rain mac!!! Well, one of those plastic bin liner types that you get at fun parks before getting on a water ride!!!! You know the type, thin and flimsey……..well he sat across the aisle from CJD……and for some reason unbeknown to Ang and I, she was wetting herself!!!!
She had been watching this guy for about 5 mins. He was single handedly battling away with his polythene flag! That’s what it turned into as the buffeting wind on the top deck made it almost impossible to control and guide over his head….WELL that was it wasn’t it…….ang and I once we had noticed were in fits of hysterics…..we must have put the tour lady off her speech but we couldn’t control ourselves and were laughing so hard there was nothing we could do……it made us even worse when over the tannoy she said, “I know what your laughing at” as she stifled a snigger!!! CJD came to the rescue, admitted to the bloke that she had been unable to control herself for the previous 10mins but felt so bad that she had to help him…..as soon as she did it was like a release valve and the whole top deck of the bus erupted into a brief laugh!!! Making sure he had it on the right way, we were able to control our selves again! And continue with the tour….. Until………the rain….like monsoon season in the tropics……..us/topdeck/no waterproof well that was it…..more laughter….WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT ON AN OPEN BUS TOUR AT THE TOP GETTING WET!!!!! Couldn’t believe it….we jumped off at the gold souk to show Ang the shops while in there the heavens well an truly opened…..I managed to haggle between two guys for the cheapest 2 unbrellas I have ever bought! Walking back to the bus feeling quite smug a crack of thunder ripped through the sky right above us…..PROPER made us jump….i even ducked, it was sooo loud!. We still had about 2 hours left on the tour……well, that was until we got stuck in the traffic associated with the welcome back for the UAE footie team! They won the gulf cup! CARS, QUADS, FLAGS, BALLOONS, SPRAY PAINT, STREAMERS, people sat on car roofs, bonnets, hanging off the side, the backs……much wheel spinning and back firing…but I tell you what some of those cracks were not the sound of backfiring!!!! I reckon there must have been some sort of starting pistol/ guns around……I will try to upload the videos…it was like nothing I had ever seen before….and definitely made the 2.5hour delay worth it.
VIDEO REMOVED AS IT WONT WORK AT THE MO!!!! will sort it out....i promise!
Eventually got back to MOE picked up the car and went to our friends house…a bit worried of what our journey home would be like.
After short chin wag and a cuppa we left and surprisingly the journey was TOTALLY uneventful!
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