The Entrance
The Dining Room
The Living Room
The Kitchen
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The Washroom (there are 3 of them in all & the all look the same)
The Front Yard
TheYard looking from the pool
The Pool
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Our New Compund we are Villa #5
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Our New Home!
So here are the first pictures of our new home. We should be receiving the keys today so we will slowly move things and then the furniture and big things will be moved next Saturday. We are super excited about this place, it's about 20 - 30 min outside of the city downtown core, but it's all worth the trip for the fact that it's brand new and we have our own home not an apartment with a pool and a yard!!! We can BBQ all year round :-)
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Monday, January 25, 2010
All Women Hospital
I went to register at the Corniche Hospital this morning, this will most likely be the hospital where I give birth. The hospital is staffed by only women! I was told that there is only 1 male OB/GYN. It's so odd to see just women walking around and serving you. Steve is allowed to come for my appointments and can be there for the delivery, but while we wait to get in for the appointment he has to wait in a totally seperate waiting room!!!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Lea's Favorite Things
We don't know how she figured it out, but for a while now one of her favorite things is a necklace. No one at home wears one so we're not sure where she picked it up from and figured it out that you wear it around your neck. From the moment she wakes up she puts it on and wears it all day long.
The other favorite thing is a cell phone, that one wasn't too hard to figure out why she would want to play with one :-)
Monday, January 18, 2010
It's 2010 & so many things are happening!!!
Hello to All!
I know it's been way too long and from our trip back home I found out that there are quite a few followers of our blog. I am sorry to have disappointed you in the last couple of months, but as most of you know we have been very busy and the blog has sort of landed on the back burner.
So from the start, we spent our Christmas Holidays in Montreal which was great. It really takes a long time to get back home, but it's so worth it. We're sorry we didn't get the chance to see everyone, but again we were running on a tight schedule and since Lea's in our lives we're kind of running on her schedule :-)
Montreal was great, seeing friends and family and our Church community was awesome and well worth the travel. Getting back to Abu Dhabi took us longer than normal as our flight out of Montreal was over 5 hours late. We missed our connection in Frankfurt and therefore we were rebooked to fly to Abu Dhabi via Jordan. All in all we really only travelled 5 hours longer than originally planned, but we were exhausted at the end. Lea did her best to be nice to us, but poor thing was just over the top tired.
Once we got back the first week was rough. Steve got sick and Lea was very jet-lagged and would wake up every night at around 1am and would stay up for about 5 hours wanting to play. That's all over now, she's back to her normal sleeping pattern and Steve's much better. As soon as we got back we were searching for a new place to live as we decided that we can no longer stay in our current apartment. 1) Because it's way too expensive, 2) the building is not well maintained, 3) we got fed up of dealing with the constant traffic as we live at the very beginning of the island.
We searched and searched and haven't found one place that really hit every right spot, the place itself, the price and the location. God was really on our side through this entire process because every time we almost said yes to a place something else came up and we would move on. We were exhausted looking and not being able to settle on something, but it was all worth it in the end. Last night we found our place! We were not even going to that location, but God works in miraculous ways and he stirred us in the right direction. We found a town house/villa a little outside of the city; it's brand new with 3 bedrooms in a small compound with a communal pool. The place is really great and it was way under our budget which makes it even more exciting. We will have to get a second car and Steve will no longer be able to walk to work, but in the worst case scenario it should take him between 20 - 30 minutes to get to work. We're about 2 minutes away from a brand new shopping mall and we'll have the peace and quiet of suburban life. Once we get in there I will most definitely take pictures and post them for all of you to see.
Saying all of that please forgive me if you don't hear from us for a while as we have to move in the next 2 weeks and we're not sure how long it will take for us to get internet in our new place.
Happy belated New Year to all of you!
I know it's been way too long and from our trip back home I found out that there are quite a few followers of our blog. I am sorry to have disappointed you in the last couple of months, but as most of you know we have been very busy and the blog has sort of landed on the back burner.
So from the start, we spent our Christmas Holidays in Montreal which was great. It really takes a long time to get back home, but it's so worth it. We're sorry we didn't get the chance to see everyone, but again we were running on a tight schedule and since Lea's in our lives we're kind of running on her schedule :-)
Montreal was great, seeing friends and family and our Church community was awesome and well worth the travel. Getting back to Abu Dhabi took us longer than normal as our flight out of Montreal was over 5 hours late. We missed our connection in Frankfurt and therefore we were rebooked to fly to Abu Dhabi via Jordan. All in all we really only travelled 5 hours longer than originally planned, but we were exhausted at the end. Lea did her best to be nice to us, but poor thing was just over the top tired.
Once we got back the first week was rough. Steve got sick and Lea was very jet-lagged and would wake up every night at around 1am and would stay up for about 5 hours wanting to play. That's all over now, she's back to her normal sleeping pattern and Steve's much better. As soon as we got back we were searching for a new place to live as we decided that we can no longer stay in our current apartment. 1) Because it's way too expensive, 2) the building is not well maintained, 3) we got fed up of dealing with the constant traffic as we live at the very beginning of the island.
We searched and searched and haven't found one place that really hit every right spot, the place itself, the price and the location. God was really on our side through this entire process because every time we almost said yes to a place something else came up and we would move on. We were exhausted looking and not being able to settle on something, but it was all worth it in the end. Last night we found our place! We were not even going to that location, but God works in miraculous ways and he stirred us in the right direction. We found a town house/villa a little outside of the city; it's brand new with 3 bedrooms in a small compound with a communal pool. The place is really great and it was way under our budget which makes it even more exciting. We will have to get a second car and Steve will no longer be able to walk to work, but in the worst case scenario it should take him between 20 - 30 minutes to get to work. We're about 2 minutes away from a brand new shopping mall and we'll have the peace and quiet of suburban life. Once we get in there I will most definitely take pictures and post them for all of you to see.
Saying all of that please forgive me if you don't hear from us for a while as we have to move in the next 2 weeks and we're not sure how long it will take for us to get internet in our new place.
Happy belated New Year to all of you!
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