A long awaited weekend away finally was cashed in last month as we visited the Miramar Resort in Fujairah. Fujairah is about a 3 1/2 hour drive from Abu Dhabi (with boards on top) and on the other side of the country where the mountains meet the sea. Nice change of scenery from our city life! It was an extremely late anniversary present but we still acted as if it was that weekend and managed to get a cake, a fruit platter and some sparkling....cider. We spent two nights hanging out on the beach, snorkeling around the reef where we saw a shark, some giant squid and lots of fish. On the way out we stopped at Khorfakkan and found some new places to paddle and a few friendly turtles to follow.