I apologize for the delayed posting…..I’m starting to slack and I promise to be better. Every Saturday night turned to an occasional Monday post and now has become Tuesday. I gotta rein it in now before the delays gets out of control!
This week was fairly quiet, with the exception of Alice’s birthday celebrations!!!! Without her you all would have a big bunch of nothing to read. Ha!
So last Monday night a bunch of us (Alice is popular!) went to dinner at the Fairmont to celebrate her actual bday. It was a buffet (much easier for 20ish ppl) and I found something phenomenal at the dessert section….candy!!!! Gummy worms, gummy cherries, gummy bears, gummy palm trees, gummy fish, etc etc. I shoved an entire bowl full of gummy goodness into my mouth and could barely move when we finished! Ppl were shocked at my ability to eat so much candy (for those of you who know me well, this would have been no surprise!). Dinner was good and then they brought out a cake for her (her 4th of the day!) and then ppl started to disperse. 5 of us troopers went to a shisha bar for awhile, smoked shisha and were endlessly entertained by Liana’s ability to suck the helium out of the birthday balloons and sing us songs (yes we brought the balloons with us….Liana gave us a preview at dinner and we were not letting these go to waste!). Alice gave it her best shot and immediately declared (in a chipmunk voice) “it’s not working!”. Ha….it surely was. Thankfully we all decided to be smart professionals and go home at a decent time instead of having a raging night.
Tuesday I was supposed to meet Dean/Oliver after their client dinner but I went home after work to nap and when I woke up at 10:30 and hadn’t heard anything, I decided I was being smart (2 nights in a row, I know you are all impressed!) and calling it a night. I woke up to lots of messages about 10:45ish….was quite glad I missed them cuz it would have been a mission to get ready and go out and I was clearly exhausted (slept from 8ish til 6:30am!!)
Wednesday I got up early and ran again (2 in one week, who am I?!) as Wednesdays generally end up late nights out and I wanted to get a workout in. Well this Wednesday night was my first chill one since like November so I went home and hit the gym instead.
Thursday morning I had to get up super early to go to Dubai for medical testing for my residence visa. They took blood and gave me a nice bruise on my right arm (I’m right handed…the rest of the day sort of sucked since I was in a suit and it hurt to move my arm at all!!!). That night was our belated team dinner so we went home to change after work and then went over to the Shangi-La for Chinese food. It was delicious! The plan was to meet Alice out afterwards for her bday night take 2 (she had dinner with some other friends and then we were all gonna go to Rock Bottom) but it ended up being a bust. She was tired after her dinner and so were we (plus Liana has been sick as a dog so not in the mood for much of anything). In bed by 1am on my Friday night….was great!
Friday I spent day at pool, hit the gym, started a new book and otherwise chilled out. Alice and I went to the Yacht Club for dinner at 9 which was nice. Sat outside, had some delicious cocktails and food. What she wanted they had some issue with so that was a bummer considering it was her birthday take 3. Lol. Apparently there was some technical difficulty in the kitchen so they couldn’t make any pasta. We pondered this for awhile and eventually decided they must make their own pasta and someone broke the pasta machine?! I got a call at like 11pm from someone who was using me as a reference so of course after 3 watermelon martinis I had nothing but good things to say! I asked if we could do it on Monday since 1. I was at dinner and 2. It was 11pm but they wanted to get it done. The diff work week/time difference can be really annoying sometimes.
Anyway after dinner we went over to the Emirates Palace to Etoiles to meet some other folks and the night really began. We danced, drank, took shots and goofed off until about 3am when one guy had the bright idea to go to Allure on Yas island (this is not a down the street type of trip..its kind of a mission). Anyway….I’m easily influenced and it was Alice’s birthday so why not right? 5 of us went….4 in back of cab, 1 in front. It was quite possibly the funniest/most uncomfortable cab rides of all time. It started off Anwar on left window, then me, then Alice, then Berkin on right window. Sebo was smart and sat up front. Alice should have chosen this option. Ha. So anyway….I’ve hung out with this crowd before, Alice has not. So Berkin goes in super aggressive mode as he’s decided he loves Alice and we made it about a mile down the road before I had to switch spots with her. This sort of helped….no..not it didn’t, it just put me in the middle of it!!! So I’m like “Berkin sit down, simmer down, chill out” figuring he was terrifying Alice who is so nice and not wanting him to be all over her. He would listen for about 30 seconds before deciding I didn’t exist and she really wanted him. Lol. The best part was about half way through the trip when Berkin realized Alice was not who he thought she was. Ha. They had met (for real) last summer and she remembered but he clearly didn’t. He did think he had met her before at some point, but the girl he thought she was, clearly she wasn’t. So then he was like oh I’m so so so so sorry..but then…but I still love you! Ha. Anyway….so we roll up to Allure which is open til 6am around 3:30am. The guys at the door proceed to tell us that the doors close at 2:30am. Oh yes, this makes sense. You are open til 6 but close the doors 3.5 hours before? You are lucky anyone even makes the trip out to Yas to come to your club, don’t start being pricks. At this point its kinda cold and Alice and I have to pee. Oh…and when we got out of the cab, she looked beyond traumatized and I apologized profusely and told her to just go home if she wanted. She considered it, but being a trooper and having never been to Allure, decided to stay for a drink. Once we finally got in (the guys pulled some stirrings or something cuz the other ppl in line weren’t getting in!) we had a great time. Music was good, we got a bottle of goose and they were walking around handing out pizza. Ha. The venue is really nice (sucks its not on the island, as in Abu Dhabi island) and we had a great time. Alice checked out about 5am and the rest of us around 6am. I got to watch the sun rise which was pretty cool but then I was ready to crash.
Saturday was mostly useless after Friday night’s nonsense. I went and met Alice at the beach club for a couple hours and devoured a club sandwich and fries and then we got manicures and I went home. I was relieved to hear she really did have a great time and was up to do it again so we’ll just call this her initiation night as now she’ll be prepared! I should have hit the grocery store, and the gym, and done laundry, but I laid in bed and did a whole lot of nothing for the rest of the day. It was glorious.
Sunday I hit the gym after work and then yesterday I got up and ran since I was having dinner with Oliver. We went to one of our usual spots and had our usual (French Onion Soup and Filet). I was craving a steak, it’s been weeks and with all my working out, my body needed some red meat. Then we went to Trader Vics where I really only had one mai tai this time as I learned my lesson from our last one drink at TV which turned into lots which turned into me being a drunken mess on a work night!
Gonna hit the gym after work tonight and maybe get some laundry done.
We’re supposed to be doing a girls trip to Bahrain this weekend but it’s up in the air until I find out if my residence visa is finished in time and if Alice has to work on Friday. Ideally we’ll have it all sorted tomorrow as we’ll head off on Thursday. Excited to see some of the region!!!
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