I’m glad this week is behind me. Alanna was gone for 10 hours each day Sun-Thur. Logan was pretty much exclusively fed by her since he was born, so the bottle was something he didn’t want to take well. Also, when Logan feeds from Alanna, most of the time he gets sleepy and goes to bed. Not with the bottle though. he just dirnks and stays up. He is getting the hang of the bottle now thankfully, so next week will be much better. Alanna will be in the SAME TOWN, and she will only be working 3 or 4 hours a day.
We found a great place for groceries and everything else this week. Its called Carrefour. Its basically a super walmart, but better. They have pretty much everything we’ll need furniture wise, including refrigerators, microwaves, TVs, etc. The only thing they’re missing are couches and beds, but we found those at another store, not that we bought any of that. We have no clue when we’ll be moving out of the hotel and into our apartment. Carrefour has cheap clothes too so I’ll probably stock up there when I need something. We also found some sliced roast beef and turkey, so I have normal sandwiches this week.
We had heard/read that there was a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in town. We’d been looking it when we went out, but had yet to find it. Thursday night we made it our mission. It was at one of two places, and we chose the wrong one first. The taxi driver took us to the second place though and we found it! Yay. I was also very happy to learn that the doughnuts tasted just like the ones from back home. We took a dozen home with us, and by this morning, they were all gone.
Last night I also tried some geocaching. For those of you who are unfamiliar – geocaching is a hobby where people hide objects, a small box, even something micro with just a logbook in it. They hide these things all over the world and attach GPS coodinates to it. Your job is to find them and leave a note on the log that you have been there. I just got into it before I left the states. I found out there are over 200 of them in UAE. Looking it up yesterday, I found out there was one in the park we went to the other day across from our hotel! The clues on the website said to go at night because the park is all lit up and looks cool. So last night, at 12:30, I headed over to the park. I figured it would be empty. I’d get in, find the cache, and get out. I was mistaken. To my shock, the park was filled with 1000 people. I’m not kidding. Adults, kids, everyone was there. I’m so used to kids going to bed early in the states. But here, there were hundreds of kids playing on the playgrounds, kicking soccer balls around, all having a great time – at 12:30am. I guess when its 115 degrees during the day, it make sense to go outside at night. Its also Ramadan, so I suppose a lot of them were breaking their fasts since it was night time. So I made it close to the cache area, but there were just too many people around. I didn’t want to look like some creepy guy lurking in the bushes. So I left and decided to try another time. On the way back to the hotel, I stopped by and played with the pack of dogs. There are 6 of them, none over a year old I’d say. They were very friendly though and seemed happy to play with me for a bit.
Today was the first day of the weekend and we… did… nothing. Which was fine with me. Alanna has a nice little stomach bug, so she didn’t feel like going out anyway. And I was more than happy to catch up on some sleep. Maybe we’ll get out tomorrow!
