Marta and Art are leaving for the states tonight, we can't wait to get out of here and the humidity for awhile. as I write this the windows are dripping with humidity and the car A/C is barely keeping the car cool. We are off to the Inn for 10 days, then Denver, Oregon, Fresno, Santa Barbara, then back to the Inn for Art and Abu Dhabi for Marta. We took some pictures last week of our new place, posted herehttp://picasaweb.google.com/eastmaninn/EarlyMorningAbuDhabiWalk?feat=email#
It is better and easier to just view the link then re post all the pictures. it is a beautiful building on the outside, all the points like a sail, there are 4 buildings, 3 apartment buildings and 1 large hotel that is opening this weekend, we will miss the grand opening, but that is just fine, we hope to see as many friends and family as possible
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
August Update
We are finally furnishing our new apartment, the view is awesome and it still sounds kind of hollow, but we are making progress. Chairs, sofas, a TV (no hookup yet), A sound system that is pretty nice. Art took these pictures at night, the "Big dig" next door, a 90 storey hotel, like we need another hotel in this city..we hope the restaurants are good, it is just a hole in the ground now
So i have a furniture allowance, so I spent it, all new living room set, a used dining room table and side cabinet
The set really does match the rug and chair we bought. So far NO pictures or paintings on the wall as they are concrete and u need a drill to bore into the walls. We did splurge and bought a car load of houseplants and some herbs. Mint for Arts Mojitos and chives and rosemary for cookiing
And of course we have this outside our windows, it is magnificent. It cost 1 billion us dollars to build about 3 years ago. It is the 7 star Emerates Palace Hotel, rooms in the high season go from 1000 us to 16,000 per night..We have been to a concert there, actually 2 of them, our friends ate dinner there, it cost for 2, nothing special 300 us dollars with no alcohol. We had drinks there one night; $45 for 2 drinks....Yikes...the Dome on top is blue, in this picture, it changes about every 30 seconds to green, white, purple, blue, then just the moons shine some times...Art likes to watch the cars come and go. We can't wait until winter so we can sit outside, right now it is 115 degrees...it has been hotter, up to 131 the hottest so far this summer. We start Ramadan in 2 weeks and no eating during daylight hours in public. We will try to honor the culture..the good thing is the evening feast after sundown, tents are set up all over town to feast after dark and Art has had several invitations from his employees to go to their houses at night and feast.
So i have a furniture allowance, so I spent it, all new living room set, a used dining room table and side cabinet
The set really does match the rug and chair we bought. So far NO pictures or paintings on the wall as they are concrete and u need a drill to bore into the walls. We did splurge and bought a car load of houseplants and some herbs. Mint for Arts Mojitos and chives and rosemary for cookiing
And of course we have this outside our windows, it is magnificent. It cost 1 billion us dollars to build about 3 years ago. It is the 7 star Emerates Palace Hotel, rooms in the high season go from 1000 us to 16,000 per night..We have been to a concert there, actually 2 of them, our friends ate dinner there, it cost for 2, nothing special 300 us dollars with no alcohol. We had drinks there one night; $45 for 2 drinks....Yikes...the Dome on top is blue, in this picture, it changes about every 30 seconds to green, white, purple, blue, then just the moons shine some times...Art likes to watch the cars come and go. We can't wait until winter so we can sit outside, right now it is 115 degrees...it has been hotter, up to 131 the hottest so far this summer. We start Ramadan in 2 weeks and no eating during daylight hours in public. We will try to honor the culture..the good thing is the evening feast after sundown, tents are set up all over town to feast after dark and Art has had several invitations from his employees to go to their houses at night and feast.
All for now...too tired and busy at night to do much blogging
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