Most people join one of the beach clubs in Abu Dhabi, there are a couple private ones and then there are the ones attached the the hotels. You pay a fortune for the hotel ones and while they are cheaper, the private ones still ask for a pretty penny. We've had tours of two and the popular one 'The Club' would be a great place to hang out on the weekends, but has a 12 month waiting list! The other one Abu Dhabi Health and Fitness is more expensive and just got the worst vibe visiting, like we had no chance of becoming members! We're thinking since we're pretty close to the public beach and have a pool on our rooftop, we might just join the gym around the corner a much more 'local' gym. It's just to bad that our 'rooftop club' can't enjoy guests! If we had our way (and money) we would definitely head back to the Beach Rotana where we stayed the first week and join there $5,000+ a year club.





In our dreams we would be here every day...

This is obviously the only really important piece of furniture we have now and of course...West Wing is already being played :) We will post some more pics soon, a few more trips to IKEA need to be made to make it complete :)



Well we've done it, we've pretty much made a massive white tiled, white walled apartment into a home. I use the term "we" very loosely as you, the reader, may think that we have gone shopping together, we have chosen the furniture and been there to sort it all out and put things in different places. But alas, I can't feign much credit to this awesome achievement; I can't and I won't. It was Jen, my partner in life and partner in crime that made a space a home, that went out with nothing and came back with homely things, and that made the organized chaos (full of boxes and furniture) into our organized home (complete with furniture and maid's room full of boxes).

Some of the highlights for me when I came home were seeing the sofa, larger than life, in the living room and the beautiful dining suite set up waiting for us to have dinner that night (....although I think we went out to eat Indian the first night). The bed was sooooo comfortable after spending two nights on an air mattress on the cold tiled floor. Also the TV. Our pride and joy. A 42 inch LCD HDTV. It's awesome. We've been watching some DVDs and actor's heads are larger than real life on the screen!!! It's crazy, but in an awesome, sensational, excellent way.

The pool is still there but we've learnt the hard way that when the signs say "Guests not allowed in the pool", they actually do mean it. However, don't fret! When we actually do have "guests" that stay, we just have to sign a form and everything should be ok; apparently.

Now, if only the internet company can sort themselves out and actually get us connected at home! Then we wouldn't have to steal wireless from the guy next door. Here's a side note for you all, there are officially only two internet companies at the moment. The major one is governmental managed and the other has only just started so they use the major one for basically everything...