Last Day

Well after working hard-six days a week for a year and three parts my husband is finishing up his job! Today is his last day. Thankyou for working so hard everyday:) And giving it up to start a new section of our life. Hopefully the following bit will be even more rewarding. It has been great to live in Dubai for a while.
Next week we get to go to Lebanon to visit Taita then its going to be all packing and visitors. We a have two guests coming. One of my friends from England and G's cousin. So it will be all waterparks and touristy enjoyment. It will be good to go out with more than just two of us. Hopefully our friend in the building next door will also come. So with the five of us we can go exploring Ferrari world and everything Abu Dhabi has to offer as well.

On the work front I've finally almost finished the wedding quilt....

I also worked out that to do fancy freehand stitching with the sewing machine I needed to use the darning foot. Just lower the teeth and inset the foot.
And I completed the wedding cross stitch. Hopefully when we get home I can find an appropriate frame. The bottom part is for childrens names... e.t.c

Last week we went out for lunch at The Noodle Factory. The food turned out to be quite good. They only have imported water and the ginger beer is not that good. The food however was delicious. I ordered some duck rolls hoping to get some duck pancakes or a version of vietnamese rice paper rolls.. but they turned out to be similar to fried spring rolls.




Yesterday we went to a fruit and vegetable market here. It was stinking hot because its outside but the vegetables were remarkably fresh. Guys follow customers around with a wheelbarrow to place purchases in. There are loads of watermelon stalls, pumpkin stalls and every shop owner seemed to want to sell you his mangos. I also began using this massive pile of scraps to make a quilt.

The last couple of weeks have been a challenge. Just figuring out what is edible is tiring. If I can't figure out what to eat I turn yellow and feel horrid. G has been very helpful putting up with crazy requests. The baby is on schedule though. It has grown double its tiny size. We saw it's heart beating at a crazy speed last week.
I managed to finish the red quilt and finish the cross stitch for Brent and Nat. Hopefully I'll finish their wedding quilt and get onto another one to sell. I need to start one for a customer too:) Hopefully I can find some good combinations in dark colours.