Grey saturday

I dont think Dubai has seen as much rain as we have had this winter for years, last winter it rained twice I think. Dont get me wrong, we love it, especially knowing what we have ahead of us!
 
 
oh, and before anyone complains...yes I stopped the car before I took the photo :)
 
 
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Trip to the doctor

J didnt throw up last night but earlier this afternoon we were painting egg cups and all of a sudden she said her chest was hurting. She didnt want to finish her egg cup but went to lie down on the sofa and started screaming with pain saying she was hurting so much. Its hard to know how bad the pain was, but she doesnt normally complain about pain so we thought it was best to take her to the clinic here in DSO. The doctor concluded that she has a viral infection and that we keep giving her meds to keep her fever down, he thought the pain was from her heart racing when the fever went up. Now she is feeling fine and playing, not wanting to go to bed even though she was up at 5 am!!
 
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Gastric flu?

This morning we had a playdate at the biketrack near Meydan. The kids and I all looked forward, it was time for me and R to catch up! J only rode her bike and played for about 10 minutes and then she came near me complaining that it was hot, she was tired and her eyes hurt. She lay down on the blanket near us but she kept complaining and her nose was a bit runny. I was sure she was catching a cold, its common (at least for me) to get watery and slightly burning eyes when I have a cold. We stayed put for an hour, it was getting too hot and J was not looking well at all so we decided to go home. She almost slept in the car but 3 minutes away from home she called out "mum i need to throw up!". I stopped the car as quickly as I could and ran around to help her out but I didnt make it. When I opened the door she had her whole mouth full and some hadnt fit and ran out. Poor thing had tried to keep it in! I got her out of the car and she threw up some more before we managed the last bit of drive home. At home she got to relax on a mattress by the tv, that´s standard treatment at our house when you´re sick and at the risk of throwing up (no staying on the sofa!) she felt ok and was hungry so she had some pretzels and a sandwich.
 
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Two hours after she "ate" and 4½ hours after the first vomit she threw up again, twice in a short amount of time and since then nothing (6 hours later). I dont know what to think of it all, it doesnt feel like a normal gastric, too much time inbetween the throwing up and also the hunger? And where does the runny nose and hurting eyes fit in? Only time will tell but Im hoping I get to sleep tonight! J is sleeping on a mattress by the foot of my bed so that I can easily hear her and help her if she has to throw up again. Im therefore sitting here listening to her every move, checking up on her hoping she can make the bucket so I dont have to stay changing sheets in the middle of the night!
 
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Proud A

When I was waiting for A outside his classroom the other day the children came out to collect their bags to pack them up. A came out carrying a small yellow bag looking "very important". When they then finished school he told me how their year leader had challenged them to calculate how much 3x34 is! Together with his friend they had been the only childre to manage to solve it and he was so proud of himself, repeating all afternoon "Im so proud of myself" :)
 
 
 
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New nails

 
 
 
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Back to the grind

It has taken us almost a week to settle down after our holiday but i think we are finally there. There are lots of things to deal with when you´ve been away for 2 weeks. Kids have settled in school, I have had my 3 monthly visit to the liver doctor, after school activities, decided upon and paid for, car service, pedicure and small things here and there. Not much to tell though, its all very boring and old. 
 
 
Its getting a bit too hot for my liking though!
 
 
After 2 weeks of using closed shoes my feet needed a good scrubbing, springtime it is and I decided to go for blue nails for a nice change.
 
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Ta Qali playground

 
 
 
Playing with our friends from Dubai
 
 
Our gang and their gang!
 
 
 
 
 
 
A also met a boy in his class at DESS that is 1/4th maltese!
 
 
 
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J+L

 
J+L in pre-nursery at San Andrea 2010
 
 
J+L two days ago....
 
 
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On our way home again....

 
 
 
 
 
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Only in Malta!

This would be a fit for the website "only in Malta"
 
 
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Ice cream in Xlendi

 Malta (and Gozo´s) best icecream can be found in Xlendi so of course we had to go there
 
 
 
 
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Sleepy!

Poor J had to sleep here, there and everywhere when we were away!
 
 
On the dining table at Nando´s
 
 
on the tube going home one afternoon
 
 
and at the entrance to H&M
 
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Little helpers...

 
helping granny with the dishes....
 
 
and the "reward" is a taste of the biggest easter egg!
 
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Cittadella

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Lunch with friends!

 
 
 
 
Who has the most hair?
 
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Lunch at Mgarr ix Xini

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Little J

Today we went to visit JP and little J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Baby E

 
 
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Busy, busy, busy...

Yesterday was a crazy busy day. In the morning we went to "San Anton Gardens" and "Presidents Kitchen Garden". We got to see plenty of flowers and animals, pet some cats and played. The lasting memory for me though will be the smell. The lemontrees are in bloom and they smell heavenly! I really wish there was a way you could keep the smell with you in the same way you can take a photo of something to be reminded how it looked like....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We went home for a quick lunch before we went to explore a new playground in Marsaskala where we were meeting a pilot friend and her son. Playground was great but it was a bit too windy so we didnt stay too long.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
E needed some help in the house so we dropped off the kids with the grandparents and went to Gharghur. An hour and a half later we threw down some dinner and had a quick shower to go out again and meet a university friend. It was very nice to meet up, F used to "take care" of me when R was studying in Spain and I was living in Malta alone. F is from Gozo and studied at university in Malta so he was here a bit on his own too so we used to meet up for a movie once a week or so and I knew I could always call him if I needed any sort of help around the house.
 
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Trafalgar Square and Picadilly Circus

 
 
 
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Gozo part 1

The kids had requested that we go visit Gozo and we managed to fit it in.
 
 
We stopped by at Popeye Village on the way up to the ferry
 
 
We went with a fishing boat at Dwejra/Azure Window
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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St James´s park

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Playground

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Buckingham Palace

 
 
 
 
 
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Lunch with friends in Malta

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Muffinskis

A trip to London is not complete without a visit to Muffinskis in Covent Garden!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tower of London

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We got to watch a re-enactment of the robbery of the Crown Jewels in 1671, it was great and had us moving around from one part to another!
 
 
 
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Boat ride

 
We took a boat from London Eye to Tower of London
 
 
 
Snack time!
 
 
 
Blackfriars Bridge
 
 
St Paul´s cathedral
 
 
Shakespeare´s Globe theatre
 
 
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Cousins

 
 
Completely impossible to get all kids to look at the camera AND little J not closing his eyes!
 
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London Eye

 
Waiting for the train to take us to Waterloo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After some re-search we found that by arriving early for the London Eye we shouldnt have to wait so long so we decided not to pay for "Fast Track" and it did work out well for us. Since we had printed the tickets ourselves from home we didnt have to wait to collect them so when people started to line up so did we and since they had staff there they opened for passengers early! Even though they were meant to open at 10 by 9.35 we were on the first "pod"!
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Saturday in London

First day in London we didnt get any photos since we (me) had missed that the camera battery was flat! So R ended up carrying a heavy SLR around London for nothing! We visited the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaurs and then we went to Picadilly Circus and walked Regents Street up towards Oxford Circus with a stop at Hamleys. R took the kids to M&S Café and gave me some time to run around the shops a bit!
 
 
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