Banana break






Kids under 16 years are not allowed in the jacuzzi but to make up for it they have this lovely bubble section in the normal pool. Kids loved it!






When we came home I found J sleeping, holding on to her Happy Meal box with food still in her mouth! My poor little thing...I guess that says something about how tiring our morning in the sun was!


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Swimlesson at DESS - it looks like he is going to drown but they are practising freestyle swimming






J outside our house, waiting for her crush to drive by on his bicycle :)






Kensington children listening to stories during "Book Day" (you can read more about it here)









R found this lovely terminal when arriving in Chennai Airport.



From a friend´s camera at a birthday party at our neighbours house



"can you please take a photo of me" J asked the photographer, she is anything but shy! :O



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My fav waffle, with gooseberry jam and cream



J always prefer anything chocolaty, this time nutella.

Woke up hearing A crying in the doorway and then a big splash. Gastric flu in the house. Lovely....or not!

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Last night R passed his simulator test so now we can start living again :P

He also got his april roster yesterday and we couldnt be happier. He has a total of four flights (!) of which 3 are to Malta and the fourth one a shortie to Baghdad. Sure, he has some leave but still. April should be a lovely month for us :)



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We are a bunch of swedes that found eachother through FB that have been meeting at eachothers houses every wednesday. Its great as it helps me get out of Silicon Oasis every once in a while and this week I went to the Palm. Its nice to have been there but the more I see of other parts of Dubai the happier I am about where we live. At times it might feel like we are a bit far out but then we have peace and quiet and never find lots of traffic to come or go. On wed its my turn to have the girls over, its going to be fun and I have already started planning. Tonight Im going to prepare a dough to stay raising all night and bake it tomorrow morning for the famiily to test it out. Hope it will come out good!


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Sometimes I thank my lucky stars that there is an IKEA here in Dubai as opposed to Malta. Yesterday I bought this bread and thought the kids would be totally excited.

But when I was going to serve it this morning A didnt want "its not like grandma's bread". I tried to explain that it was still the same although it was not the same shape and finally he took an ant sized bite. Even though I was sure he was going to like it I didnt expect his excitement when he told me "wow, now I remember!" Then he added that maybe I cold buy a bigger packet next time :)








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Quick update, will try to write more tonight and also upload some photos of re-arranged bedrooms and the part this afternoon.

Last night we had a swedish family over for dinner, it was very nice to meet up, its a pity they live a bit too far from us. 

The weather has changed suddenly and its been really hot the last few days and its only mid march :S As the heat increases so does my longing to go to Sweden....


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J´s nursery is really trying but I still dont feel like they are getting it right, its disorganised, messy, confusing and not really thought through but its only until summer so we are closing an eye (since J is now happy and comfortable). They had a sportsday a couple of weeks ago and here are the pics we took.



Egg balancing

Three legged race

J had been asking me about a hundred times if she would get a medal at sportsday, luckily she got one :)

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The kids built our own Burj Khalifa with basically all their Duplo (with some help from their dad of course)



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Here is what it looked like at hospital when we went in for A´s gastroscopy, A watching Octonauts on the computer




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Today was a lovely relaxed end to this weekend. Felt a bit unstable in my stomach in the morning so R took the kids out for a bikeride while I relaxed on the bed. Felt much better when they came back and concluded that the lump in my throat was a sore throat more than throwing up warning. After lunch we had planned to go to DESS for International Day but A didnt feel like it and since we didnt think it was that important we decided it was up to him. Instead we took it easy on the sofa, watching Despicable Me for the 5th time. To kill some time in the afternoon we threw together some pasta dough to make ravioli however the dough didnt come that good. It was too hard and no matter how much we tried the dough remained too thick. The kids really enjoyed them though, A saying they were better than the ones they used to get in Malta :) We also had a visit from a friend and her two kids, she is so lovely and sweet and sometimes I wonder why we dont see eachother more, we have so much in common! Regardless, her visit was a lovely end to this great saturday!


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A enjoying a chocolate icecream after lunch, totally relaxed



J absolutely bursting after pizza lunch and an icecream



Lovely deck area



The beach club part, try to spot R...



They are surely my kids, not able to resist seashells...






There was a waterslide, the kids could have kept on playing here all day long!













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The last few days have been really great, I have been for a SWEA lunch (Swedish Women´s Educational Association), met up with another bunch of ppl and found a friend in our area. At the same time am I forced to drive to new places and learn a little bit more every time. This afternoon we went out for a walk/bike ride and we med J´s "crush" on our street so they played a bit together. Lovely! 


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Not a lot is going on right now, life is the same, day in day out so I thought I´d take a moment to think about how we are doing here in Dubai. I have to say that its better than I originally expected and Im happy we did make the move. The job situation in Malta seems fairly stable right now thanks to a lease of crew to another airline but that is for now and my gut feeling is still that the government have no intentions of saving AirMalta and therefore we wouldnt have felt safe and happy had we still been there. Dubai might feel a bit big and exaggerated sometimes but Im happy here, the kids are enjoying their schools and Im so happy they both got into DESS. R enjoys his job though he might feel that he is learning a bit too much about the indian geography ;) (Its well known in the pilot community that the Airbus 330 do "all" Emirates tough night flights to India). To be perfectly honest I do think its nice to have gotten further away from the in -laws, I feel so much freer lighter without their constant checking up on us, worrying and stressing out about visiting them. The only negatives I can see right now would be that I still need to make friends (and it seems to be really hard!) plus its further away from sweden which means its harder for the family to visit. They have to pay more AND need to spend more time away than they used to as now 2 whole days are lost travelling.  


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