Agghh..just finished week two and I'm exhausted. And talking about going out again tonight, ha! I only have a half day of work tomorrow and then I'm off for a week so I think I can handle a little more action tonight and suffer through a morning of work. The big F1 is tomorrow and I'm going to try to score tickets, we shall see what happens.
So lets see.....week 2. It feels like its been ages since I wrote last. I attempted laundry last week, epic fail. Its a washer/dryer combo and almost impossible to figure out. I thought I did, but turns out I did not, and it ended up on a cycle for over 2 hours so I kept waking up til it still on. And then nothing was dry. At least I think they were clean.....smelled crazy like Tide! I'm going to attempt it again tomorrow so we shall see.
So Sunday night after work I met Oliver for dinner at Chi Chi's....Mexican is always a good option! Then Monday I thought I made plans with Katie (fellow American who lives in my building and is great!) for Tuesday but really the plans were for Monday (my miscommunication!). But she was emailing my client email address so I didn't realize until I got to work on Tuesday. In the meantime I hit the gym and had a relaxing night. So Tuesday when we realized what happened, she said she had an extra ticket to the Berlin Philharmonic for that evening and was I interested, ummm...YES! So it was a rush to get home and dress up (thankfully I brought one appropriate dress!) and then we headed over. The show was amazing. So then Oliver was meeting someone at the same hotel (Emirates palace....GORGEOUS!) and the girls I went with to the show all went home. So I stayed with Oliver and crew and we hit up Etoiles for ladies night. It ended up being a really great night although I was exahusted on Wednesday with only a few hours sleep.
Wednesday was another relaxing night..back to gym (I'm trying to keep up a 4 day a week regimen and so far, so good). Thursday I did dinner with Liana and then called it an early night since we knew Friday would be a long day. Oh, and I had lunch with a fellow DCer, Maria, at work who was on secondment but just accepted a full time offer so she is going to be here full time!
Friday I slept in and then chilled at the pool all day until it was time to go out. Katie and I cabbed to Yas Island and met some other Americans at a bar (Maria and her husband and another girl Nicole). We had some pre concert drinks, inclusive of tequilla shots (Katie is a bad influence!) and then walked over to the show. Kanye was great....it was one good song after another. Once that was over we met up with Liana and company to go to Skybar which is this huge after party venue they set up for the occasion. Skybar was nuts. Liana's friends had organized a table and ours was in a prime spot. We knew the scheduled line up was Kelis, Tinie Tempah and Basement Jaxx...but had also heard rumors that Prince would be there. Soo...Kelis went on and was great.....and then Prince came on and stayed on for a long a** time. Way longer than any of the other acts combined. It was amazing. Good people, good music, good drinks. Ended up going to bed when the sun was up (about 6:30am). I slept til noonish and then lounged around before heading to the pool for a few hours. Then I took a nap and ordered room service and now am gonna get ready to go out with Liana again. Its ladies night at Level which is at the hotel right next to mine so I was easily influenced into it. Ha. We could not coerce Katie into it..she is probably the only smart one!
What else.....ohh...I've had some major issues with cabs this week. It was easier the first week cuz I was at an actual hotel where cabs lined up but now I'm in more of a serviced hotel apartments place so its not the same. I do a lot of waiting on the street in the morning, sweating in my suit which sorta sucks. The good news is...Liana has started playing my driver which is excellent. She's been driving me home and even picked me up on Thursday. She is awesome and I think we'll be great friends (not just cuz she drives me around..ha!). Oh and then some drivers are idiots.....like when I finally got a cab one morning it smelled so bad...and then I was like...4th and 15th..not that complicated right? He turns on 11th. I'm like no dumba**....15th. He was like...this is 11. No sh*t...I want to be on 15th. Anyway..I hear thats common here so I guess I get over it.
Workwise things have been really good. The first week was a little slow but now I hvae a ton to do and am enjoying it and learning a ton. And I love that I get the next week off..not a bad gig...I haven't even worked two full weeks yet...lol.
Oh..and Akon is playing Dubai in December and we have a long weekend for some other holiday so I think Liana and I and whoever else we can con into it will make a weekend out of it.
Okay..time to go see whats happening. We're hoping for some celeb sightings since the city is crawling with them. I'll try to blog more frequently this coming week since I'll be off and hopefully have some time for sightseeing. New pics are on facebook.
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