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Abu Dhabi: Birthday Bash, Dune Bash
Posted by daveb on November 7th, 2008
My glorious family have descended upon Abu Dhabi to celebrate my father’s 60th birthday. We ate, we drank, we chatted, we shopped and then we ate some more.
And then we stepped into a seven-seater 4×4 and were whisked-off into the Arabian desert to give my dear Dad a birthday to remember. My poor Mum kept her eyes mostly closed for an hour as our expert driver bashed our way through the sand dunes, the rest of us criss-crossed between squeaks of silence and raucous laughter upon successfully ‘completing’ each dune without the vehicle turning upside-down. Our driver was excellent, knowing exactly how far he could safely push the car up the dunes before making everyone sick, or worse, rolling us over!
Eventually, but not soon enough for my poor Mum, we reached our desert camp and drank Arabic tea with the nomads, rode a camel and ate some phenomenally good food. It seems that even miles away from anywhere in the UAE desert, the chefs are five-star! (Rumour has it that the Hilton hotel provides the catering and the desert nomads reheat it on site.)
After the meal, we smoked shisha (hubbly-bubbly) and looked up at the stars.
Happy Birthday Dad — hope you enjoyed it!
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Comment from moneymanager
Time: November 7, 2008, 7:16 pm
hey, nice family bash here
Comment from daveb
Time: November 8, 2008, 6:35 am
@moneymanager: Yep, always grateful to spend time with my family.
Comment from Rob
Time: November 10, 2008, 7:09 am
ahh.. the joy of smoking the equivalent of 100 fags at once, even though you’ve given up, in the name of cultural enrichment :-)
Comment from Rob
Time: November 10, 2008, 7:10 am
.. presuming it was tobacco (presumably you’d have no fingers to reply with if it wasn’t)
Comment from daveb
Time: November 10, 2008, 11:42 am
@Rob: I didn’t know that one could smoke anything other than tobacco in such a device… Yep, tobacco indeed — I had to get a “special circumstances” dispensation from Squiffy to have a puff.
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