Saturday, November 17, 2007

Tipsy in Al Barsha

So Thursday night was blow off a little steam night. This involved walking across the street to the mall and going to the special part of one of the restaurants that allows drinking - sort of a no no here. By special part I mean it's divided off from the main dining area by a big curtain - tipsy people are to be hidden. It was quite lovely actually and had a great view of Ski Dubai (that's a whole other post!).


So a little group of us went to the drinking place and well .... drank. We got a little stupid and Jane (nice British lady ... okay maybe not Lady) showed us how to make napkin penis'. Which we did ... a lot. Tom kinda hit on the waiter - at least, that's how the waiter saw it. I think Tom is hoping to be imprisoned because that would be less stressful than his job!

Napkin penis' are awesome fun especially after the 4th bottle of wine (there were 5 of us!). To make a one you fold the napkin in half then fold the edges down towards the centre so you have a kind of pyramid shap. Next take the tip of the pyramid and fold it under. Now from the top of the pyramid that's left roll the edges of the napkin in towards each other/you. Now imagine 5 people doing this. Now imagine it with a ski hill in front of you. That was pretty much our evening.

Lindy and I decided we needed to relax the following day so we went to the beach again. It was really quite lovely. For those of you who know me well I've added yet another location I can fall asleep in - face down on the public beach in Dubai. Thank goodness Dubai still has an ozone layer. Today I'm just a mass of freckles instead of lobster-like.

After the beach we hit the mall again and did pre crazy festival food shopping. One of our stops was the Lulu Hypermarket. The best part of this outing was finding the elusive Birka Barbie. Actually, it's Barbie's friend Fulla. She comes with many different types of Abayas. My personal favourite is the Morning Prayer Fulla. We still haven't found Dishdasha Ken but it gives us something else to concentrate on.

The search continues!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i din know ther was so much of fun happening this side. me too a resident of al-barsha since a year. so next time you have similar kind of fun, please do call me for a heppy fun