We've been lucky enough to meet Jose Sanchez and to sample his paella. First of all he cooked a massive Spanish omelette that turned out as big as a cake. I was waiting for him to write on it "Happy Birthday" in red capsicum. Then he starts a fire in his backyard and sets up a massive pan. He started some onions sizzling and then some other veggies. He then dumped in a ton of seafood broth, the water that he had cooked some prawns in earlier. After he put in rice and there were 5 of us there but I'm thinking, is that enough? He let that slowly simmer away and put muscles and prawns in too. It slowly developed so much flavour and it just tasted so goooooood. Amazing bbq flavours from the wood fire pit too.



Thanks Jose but I apologise. The chef should never have an empty glass, bottle or can on them. Your wine glass is empty.......

We were waiting until we moved to get new fish and this past week Nick brought home two new ones! Since Nick is in charge of pet names (I get to name the kids one day), he went with a Modern Family reference, Clive Bixby and Julianna. They seem happy in their new home, we'll see how long they last :)

Since our move we been enjoying riding our bikes around Yas Island and enjoying Nolus, a cafe just down the road from us. We can ride there, which is great and even better they open early and have breakfast. They don't really have breakfast places here in Abu Dhabi unless you visit the hotels, but more and more western style cafe's are popping up and Nolu's is quickly becoming our favorite.

We are looking forward to many more of these with friends!

 We're all settled into our new digs and super happy with it! We seriously can't believe that every morning we get to wake up look out at the sea! Neither of us seems to be missing city life and are enjoying the short 13 minute commute to work, the ease of parking and obviously having a beach to paddle from!

Here are some pics from our Go Pro (it's a wide angle so they look a bit distorted)