Oh poor neglected blog, friends and family

I finally found the link to my blog, eventually found the enthusiasm to log in and beg for everyones forgiveness. Yes we are alive and well, yes we are still here but life just got very hectic.

I am so far behind I will just fill you in on some news and I shall try and catch up with more photos once we move again

Yes you read that right, we are moving again. We have decided to move back to Abu Dhabi, to a devolopment called Al Reef. It is behind the airport, across the freeway from Al Reef Palace, I'm sure you will be able to tell our house from the Palace easily.

It will be 15 minutes drive from home to Berts work, which is great. But there is nothing much out there, which is bad. Where we live now I have everything on our doorstep, I am a little nervous about the move into the desert.

We have had visitors, our lovely friend Nessie Millar visited us for a weekend on her way to Scotland, and a few months back Marian Watson stayed with us on her way to and home from her trip to Europe. Paul and Jacqui also spent ten days here with us on their way home from an around the world backpacking trip

We have just returned from a short trip to Germany to see the Passion Play at Oberammagau. It was just amazing. I've always loved history but Oberammagau and the Passion play takes history to a whole new level. We both loved it and had an amazing time. (more on this later

I will be back soon, I need to keep packing

Sri Lanka

Bert recently travelled to Sri Lanka to recruit workers and was lucky to fulfil a life long ambition to ride elephants

photo from gulf newspaper

A UPS 747-400 crashed not far from where we live in Dubai on Friday evening. First reports said it had crashed onto Emirates road and that cars were on fire. Thankfully those reports were incorrect and the pilots had steered it away from housing and crashed into the desert on a military base. The consequenses of a 747 crashing onto houses in a city are too horrific to think about.

Those of us from Melbourne can probably remember the light plane crashing into a suburban home in Essendon and killing a woman and six children. A 747 is a whole lot bigger

Sadly two men lost their lives but almost certainly saved the lives of many others by their actions

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/emergencies/ups-identifies-american-crew-killed-in-dubai-crash-1.677784

dogs

today our dear little Millie went for her final trip to the vet. Im just so sad that I was not home to be with my kids who have cared for her since we moved here. Sometimes distance is a very painful thing.

Bus stops

Bus stops in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are airconditioned to encourage people to use public transport in the brutal summer heat.

Millie

More Bangladesh

I love this photo. Firstly, Bert blends in with the crowd so nicely doesn't he. Look at the little boy with the money in front of his face. I would love to know where he got it, did he find it in the rubbish?