Ballet girl

Jaime here again. I go to ballet now. Sometimes I even move around. Sometimes I don't. I reckon that I look very pretty in the ballet costume too..... don't you?

I look prettier than in the clothes I have to wear to do my ski lesson. I think that might be one of the reasons I didn't enjoy it last time. That and the fact that the silly lady kept trying to tell me what to do. I just wanted to go real fast down the hill.

Jack enjoyed it though - he has now completed beginners and is going to be a Polar Bear or something like that (not a real one - that's what they call the next level of lessons up). Sometimes he growls at me like a real one.

Dress up day

Every week seems to have a reason to dress up at Jumeirah Primary School. Kids dressed as their favourite book characters...photos courtesy of Saskia

Moving day

We're in the villa. It doesn't have an address. No streetnames - makes things tricky when trying to give directions to delivery guys with english (just) as a second language. Delanie did very well and was very patient getting things there. We moved from finding the villa to filling the villa seamlessly - again Delanie showed a talent for ordering and ensuring the delivery of new furniture. Was a very interesting day - massive traffic jam on the main road to start with (because someone decided to land a helicopter there!). Then about 8 trucks show up at one time - our stuff from NZ, next door's stuff, deliveries of new stuff...

Then guys turn up with the gas bottles (no piped gas - all in external bottles) and tell us that we don't have a connection - it has been tiled over / forgotten or both. So - we end up with half a company in kitchen trying to get the gas through pipes and to the stove....

Turns out that the dishwasher is the same - nowhere for it to drain. Water has been a bit on again / off again but seems to be sorted now.

Apart from that things went very well. Nothing broken. Kids love having their stuff around them again. Have a million pictures to put up. My 50 inch high definition plasma was delivered... it's a lovely house and we have lots of room for visitors.