Yea, we are back in business!!!! We have been without our new Macbook pro for almost a month now. We could only find one authorized computer store to work on Apple here, and it took 3 weeks to get the new hard drive shipped here. We now are starting over, re-configuring and downloading programs, we lost everything! The most important for us is our VPN (virtual private network) it allows us to access websites that the UAE blocks, like Skype, an other network programs. It kinda places us (our computer) out there in the unknown. Moving on...........
We spent 2 nights out at Yas Island, an up and coming hot spot created 2 years ago for the Formula One Race that is held here every November. It is definitely a destination, not alot going on right now, but watch out come November! The hotels throughout Abu Dhabi and Yas Island sell out, and the city goes nuts with many events, movies, beach parties and of course days of racing. Thought it might be fun to take part in the action, but not for $450-550 USD per ticket, guess we will try to catch a beach party instead!
We upgraded to a nice room over looking the pool, with the golf course beyond that and the gulf beyond that. Very lovely. The crowd was very sparse also. I had a meeting the first night, but hung up just in time to hang up and head over to the Rotana hotel for dinner. It was great! Gail had french onion soup and a rib eye, and I had lobster bisque and a rib eye. yum!
Soon after walking out my stomach starting to do flip-flops. The following couple hours was not my finest. I finally fell asleep when the cramping subsided. At 2am the fire alarm went off! Gail and I scrambled around the room to find something to wear, grabbed my laptop and headed for the stairs. Here's the embarrassing part. We exited the stairwell with all the old folks and young adults with children right next to the night club.....that was still going strong! We were in our jammies with our hair going every which way and they were still out partying. oh well.
Next day went to the Yas Island golf course and had a nice lunch and a couple beverages, then walked over to Ferrari World. (look it up) Then checked out Yas Hotel, which is interesting on the outside, and just plain ugly on the inside. Then Tex Mex for dinner. I had to try a margarita of course, and as I suspected, it disappointed.
We had a very memorable weekend and the upgraded room was only $116 us. Quite the bargain.
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