Friday 20th April….We headed for Al Mamzar beach, Stupidly we thought that we could sit in open sun and get a nice tan…….Hmmm a quick refreshing swim and a 10 minute pew on the sand and we had to retreat to the trees! The shade was welcome…..it was just too much in the open. When I say refreshing swim, it was refreshing when you had managed to dodge the large number of jellyfish that were being washed up on the beach. A crowd of NGS guys turned up and we all sat comparing our degrees of headache. Kath Roz and I grabbed a lilo and headed for the water where we got involved in a game of ball throwing…….well most of the time it was the ball, occasionally it would be fragments of jelly fish that Stu and Paul had ripped apart…….if we were really lucky, we would have a whole blue jelly fish lobbed at us………particularly funny when all three of us were chilling on the lilo and scattered as the jellyfish bomb descended in our vicinity! I could have stayed in the water for the rest of the day, it was really nice, but at 4 o clock we had to leave to get ready for another new experience…..just because the secondment is coming to an end, it doesn’t stop us getting out and about trying new activities…..Fran and Roz are pretty much into cars too…..so when Top Fuel Drag Racing was advertised, it was a must to go see it!...the Venue = Um Al Qwain.
We nipped back to the flat to get ready and jumped in the car (a nice mondeo as my chevvy died) and headed for the Emirates Road. For some reason a car full of females caught the attention of a 4x4 pulling a trailer of 4 quads……..not particularly safe at 120km….anyway, these boys though we would be impressed by them pulling along side, hanging out of windows etc, but when I braked they slowed down too……..then the mobile phones came out……Roz received a Bluetooth business card….they were so forward that they sent her their number……hahahah very funny!
Drag racing was a strange affair! Not a woman in sight! And NO TOP FUEL CARS! It was basically boy racers and a few fast cars and bikes (the bikes were nuts!) the second run of the night saw explosive action with an engine literally exploding into flames. I think he pushed it a bit far……the funniest thing was the safety at the track….1guy running down the strip with a fire extinguisher, a golf buggy with a couple of guys going as fast as a snail to the accident and no marshals in sight…….most bizarre…..and more frustrating was it took well over an hour to clear it up………Eventually the racing started and we saw cars and bikes blasting down the track…….but at 9pm it got a bit boring if I am honest, and we headed to Dubai……..dropped CJD at NGS and then proceeded to get pizza and meet Kath, Ed, Chris, Ian at Barasti…….only for a couple…….