Photos from my birthday:
Helllllooooo - one more day left before my escape from here - thank goodness. It has been a truely challenging week - my team have been driving me up the wall with travel orders or being unhelpful, but now I think most of them are on business trips so its nice and quiet finally....
My birthday weekend was great - had a blast. Went over to Bahrain with Ayon on Wednesday evening - only took an hour on the causeway - pretty amazing - problem is when you get to Bahrain then you get stuck in traffic as there are too many people living on a small island, and not enough roads! So it was another hour, via the bottle shop, before we got to the apartments...
Stayed at Desert Pearl apartments - they were fine - pretty cheap but clean and in a good area close to where we needed to be. Neil cooked Thai curry once he arrived and we finally finished off a few bottles of wine, once we had managed to find a bottle opener (!), so we just stayed at the apartment. Hetty arrived from Dubai later and my friend, Liss from Riyadh, was already with us. Bob M arrived later too from Dubai... Several bottles later and I was ready for bed - however, the others decided to go out clubbing and I think got in around 4.30am!!! I just don't have the staminer at my age and wanted to save myself for Thursday...
So, woke up Thursday - a bit worse for wear, but managed to drag myself off to the henna salon and get my hand's henna'd - looks better now as it was quite orange when it was done, but has gone a dark brown color now - looks good. Went back to the apartments - had some hangover food, coffee and got ready to go out...
Got to Jim's just after 1 - quite a few folk there - a few more of my friends arrived later. Had a few drinks then sat down to a buffet lunch - shepherd's pie, pasta, salad, mash, pork - very yum! My friends then presented me with a cake and also present - cash - around 400 quid - they knew I wanted a dive computer so I have now ordered this for when I go diving!
Went on to The Exchange later in the Ramada - killer pool games began and also arm wrestling - I am not sure where Breige has been training recently, but she beat us all!!!
Then later on the JJ's - caught up with a few more friends in there - some of the others went to another pub - I just stayed their til the bitter end - well 11pm - I had had enough by then!!!
Friday - most folk were up reasonably early - 8am - the girls and Neil went out for bacon and cobs so we had bacon rolls - they were yummy!
Myself and Ayon hung around with Liss as she wasn't due at the airport for her flight to Riyadh til 3. Went to the mall breifly and then lunch at Trader Vic's....
And the causeway was only an hour on the way back again!
The rest of last week was fun - my car broke down so I had to get it towed to the garage to be told it needed a new alternator, then the following day it wasn't the alternator, just a loose connection! So thats back but its not liking these colder mornings! I popped to the Mall with Tracy on Tuesday too..
Also managed my 30 minute run with the running club - been building up to that for the past few months so that free's me up tonight to pack!!! 30 mins is about 12 laps of the track! Around 3 miles...
Anyway, I leave tomorrow on a jet plane - back into the UK around 7am Weds morning.
Cannot wait - am so ready for a break - and looking forward to seeing everyone too and to my party on Saturday!!!
Take care and see you in a few days/weeks...
Jill
xxx
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