Hofuf trip weekend

Hello, another weekend has sped by.. PAWS is definitely taking over my life, but its a good thing - I am enjoying the challenge.. we have managed to sort out the garage sales so are having one of them in February and I have also secured a race night and band night over the next few months to raise cash and we have the casino night too in April! The race night should be good anyway, I learnt the ropes for that last night and we just need to get betting slips now - will see if someone can get some from the UK....

I spent Thursday in Hofuf on a trip - was helping out my friend Louise and was a tour guide. We went to the camel market, souk, fort and then the dairy farm. The farm was interesting - 11,000 cows there!! So, at least I know where my milk comes from now in Saudi!! It was a long day though - I was up at 5.30am and home at 6.00pm and had a stinking headache, so we just stayed in Thursday..

Friday Darron managed to set the smoke alarm off whilst cooking bacon - so before the firemen turned up he had to quickly eat the evidence!! Our fire alarms are connected to a central system now so the firemen always come round!! Then I had the PAWS meeting which went very well - we managed to sort out a lot of issues we had had and sort out the socials too so it was a worthwhile meeting. Later went to some friends for tea so caught up with them....

This week has been busy - just been working on PAWS stuff mainly and fitting in work around it and study for my personal training! I had to go to the Dr and have been given some arch supports which should hopefully help me with running as I have been getting injured.. Also, I had to take Sharon the hamster to the vet - she has a mouth infection - I am not sure if she will get better or not - she is quite poorly. Did my first class - pilates and conditioning mix - Sunday - that went quite well too and this weekend is pretty mad too!

Achieved more TV stations for the girls in the ballpark too after months of hasseling them so have something decent to watch now and I can cancel my satellite subscription too! And we managed to get a bus to go to the new mall after some wrangling with community services as they did refuse to put one on for us to start with! And I also managed to blag 8 prizes for the PAWS raffles off various companies! So not a bad week at all..

Weekend is busy - off to Lulu (the new supermarket) and then I have to pick up a carpet from Desert Designs as they are donating one to PAWS for the raffle - goodness knows where I will keep it though - currently my car has 5 old cat traps in it! There is no room! Tomorrow going to Bahrain - spa, Avatar, buying new trainers, Jim's for lunch and to pick up a meal for two voucher and then to TVs to pick up another voucher for PAWS!

And hashing on Friday - that is running/walking through the desert!

Over and out...

Jill

xxx