When You Live in Abu Dhabi

It occurred to me that my posts gradually are slowing down. My friend, Susan, mentioned to me that she checked the blog and realized things must be "normal" because I am not posting as much. She's right. There are still funny things that catch my attention, but not as many. Like the fact that the city is going to implement the use of parking meters next month. ..yep. Parking meters. Where are they going to start? Right outside our building. So not only will we be charged now to park but we will get more fines for parking in illegal spots. Which, as you saw in previous posts, is basically all that is available. Don't ask what we will do. We have no idea.

Next week we will be a part of the Formula 1 Racing..It's coming to town. In honor of the special event, traffic on the Corniche(main road along the water) has been shut down. The beach..which only opened a year ago..has been totally redone, and some new major light posts have been installed on one of our main thoroughfares. It's all supposed to be finished by next weekend. Who knows. Maybe it will be done. I think the Hildebrands will hibernate all weekend. :)

Sallie and Robert are taking speech with our friend Katie. Next week is the impromptu speech. Katie gave the kids about 20 topics that they will choose from(pull out of a hat sort of thing). One of them is you know you have lived in Abu Dhabi when... The kids were laughing in the car as they threw out ideas. When: you see a Lamborghini and don't notice it..ho hum. but you do get excited when you find a parking place! when: you get surprised that someone understands your directions the first time, or: you find yourself repeating yourself several times to someone who speaks perfect English. When; you pull out the sweatshirts because the temp. dipped into the 80s(this does not apply to Sallie cuz she wears hers ALL the time now. :)...even at 115 degrees.) Anyway, I hope Sallie or Robert draws that one..but we'll see. The kids are having fun with the class. There are about 11 other homeschoolers in it. Last week we had our Fall kick off for the homeschool group here. About 60 people met at the bowling alley. And that wasn't everyone. It's really growing.

That's all for now.

Hope you are all enjoying your fall weather.

We'll let you know when we have some. :)