One working day left

Matt: Yep, only a day at work and then we are flying home for 10 days. Yey!! Can't wait to see you all.
Sadly some people are going to extreme lengths to avoid me (GARRY).. Holiday?? Huh? I believe you!!

We've been pretty busy over the last 2 weeks but not really doing a great deal if you know what I mean?? We have had visitors and been to Wild Wadi again. Took Ryan (Kelly and Jo's Cousin) and Jo with us this time, had a great day once more. Ryan had a fab time out here, he even had his own Chocolate factory experience at the Patchi factory in Dubai and somehow a big feature appear in the Gulf news Tabloid supplement!!! String being pulled somewhere me thinks!!
Was good to see Wendy and Steve too, they seemed to have yet another fabulous holiday with Ann and Mick, the ever patient hosts!!

Anyhow, some interesting news; Kelly and I are working on a design project, A friend of ours is starting up a tourism company and we are designing and producing the corporate identity and the promotional brochure etc. Will be good experience and could lead to a few other jobs if we play things right. Will kick start a deign portfolio quite nicely!! Fingers Crossed.

Right - I'm outta here - see you all soon in Sunny England!!

Welcome Kalani

Matt: Finally, 6 days late, but at least he's healthy, Kalani Jack Ramsay came into the world at 11:12pm last night, 14th August.
Weighing in at 7lbs 5 1/2 ounces. Congratulations to Claire and Brian on making me an Uncle again. They are both over the moon as are we.

Everyone is well and good and we look forward to seeing the little family unit soon.

In case you are wondering, Kalani is a Hawaiian name meaning 'The Heavens'
and here's a pic of the little tyke.

Not long to go

Matt: We are not that far off our journey home now, Tickets are booked and we're gearing ourselves up for the break. So you better get ready cause we is coming home Ayyyee!!!

What have we been up to? We went to Abu Dhabi last weekend to celebrate Ann & Micks wedding anniversary. We went to Al Fanar for Friday brunch, A nice buffet in one of Abu Dhabi's taller sky scrapers and as it's a rotating restaurant, a good view can be had..



















Of course all Ann wanted was big glass of Champagne...




















After that we chilled, shopped and generally had a lovely weekend.

Then this weekend just gone, we reversed everything, Mick and Ann came to see us for the weekend. Michael and I finally got to see War of the Worlds. Hmmm it was ok, enjoyed it, no oooohhlaaaa's but no bad all the same, you know we do sometime forget Cruise can actually act!! The main concentration of the film was really about family and relationships not martians and invasions. I liked the conteporary play on peoples real life fears of terroism, interesting touch. but where was Thunder Child???
Saturday: A game of Squash limbered us all up for a session in the gym, one and all, then we relaxed by the pool for the rest of the afternoon. Lovely!! You should really come out and join us sometime soon.