Thursday 26th April.....THE FINAL NIGHT OUT!
Wow, where has 6 months gone!

Having cleared our desks, almost ready for the off Judy, who has been sooooo much help with our admin gave us gifts....such a lovely thought.........really appreciate it. as we sat at our desks unwrapping our teddies, the rest of the guys wrapped up a gift too...............Presenting us with a small white object wrapped in white paper with selotape and masking tape!! hahahahahaha OH i wonder what this could be, as CJD squeezed it in her hand........... could it be a stapler! hahahahaha so funny! after that we walked!

The boss had arranged a leaving meal at Boardwalk. This is where we went a few weeks before for Andy's leaving. A really nice venue by the creek. some of the guys beat us there, getting a cab from outside work, we ended up walking to the Flora Grand (where we stayed for a week right at the beginning). Eventually we managed to communicate our requirements to the taxi driver and got stuck in traffic.....At least the pitchers were ordered by the time we got there! Again, drinking staight from work (will we never learn!) we we chatting for ages, pitchers coming and goin.....
Now so far CJD and i had been composed, no emotions, just another night out.....even clearing the desks was fine.....but..........a colleague and his fiance arrived and bought us a gift. A few months before, we had been talking about arabic perfume. They had remembered and bought us some. THEY HAD REMEMBERED! that meant a lot and as we opened the package i think its fair to say there were a couple of lumps in our throats. The perfume is really great!
We had dinner, more beer and a small speech and we departed our seperate ways around 11:00......we had a team photo, said our goodbyes and the hard core headed for QDs next door. we had a beer and a sheesha pipe and chilled for a bit on the sofa.............the desire to crack on met us and we headed for the taxi.............can you guess where we headed? oh yes....JD! AGAIN!..........

The rest of the NGS guys went for a meal at dubai marine, and were en route to meet us too.

the strangest thing happened when we got to JD......i suddenly was not in the mood........the first time ever.......but CJD came to the rescue.......there was no way she was going to let me go home......there was more talking and then we hit the dance floor....So many people turned up to see us off......we are so grateful, especially as we know that JDs is not their favourite venue..........3am arrived and thats it! back to the flat!
well back to the flat for a moment......the after party was occuring elsewhere.....totally knackered i jumped in bed and CJD headed out.....in PJs hahahahhahaha.......the next thing i remember is trying to communicate with CJD and her mumbling something about sleeping bags and really not making any sense....quite worrying as she only went out for an hour! She didnt get up till 13:30.........
We had book to go to the Burj Al Arab for our final Afternoon Tea............and it was as good as ever!

Photos to follow!