I couldn't sleep last night. I went to bed shortly after midnight and then went to sleep no problem until 2:00am. Then, try as I might, I could not fall back to sleep - so I was up until about 5am...I tried my yoga relaxation stuff and nothing was working. So when the alarm went off at 8:00am for us to get ready for breakfast (between 8:30am and 10:00am) I turned it off an immediately fell back to sleep until 9:30, at which point I woke up in a panic. We were down to breakfast by 10am - but then also learned that no matter what we eat or drink and at what time of day or where we can charge it to our room and Manulife is picking up the bill...sweet!
After breakfast with Mark and Lorna we came back up to the room to get ready to go to the pool. (I actually wrote 'to have a nap'..but that's not what we did, so I'm not sure why I wrote it - obviously was wishing I had had a nap today!). The pool is beautiful and there are lots of chairs and lots of umbrellas.
We sat around the pool for a few hours, literally doing nothing but enjoying the peace and sunshine and heat (seriously, we did nothing - I hope you like those 2 photos - they're the only ones I took today!) and then it was time to head to the spa for my Thai Massage.
Oh. My. God. At least once in your life you have to have a Thai Massage (it deserves capitals) from a teensy weensy Thai lady who is as strong as a power lifter and is, perhaps, verging on being a sociopath. It was heaven. She had me bending and stretching in ways that the human body shouldn't and it felt SO good. Jay had a Thai Massage too, from a 'dude' and says it was the 'most incredible massage I've ever had'. And its a good thing that he did have the Thai Massage, where they give you Thai style pants and a t-shirt to wear while they stretch you - because the other men who had regular massages were given the disposable underwear that you sometimes get if you're doing a scrub and had to wear them and a couple of them complained that their 'dude' was a little aggressive on his lines (meaning he was swerving into the 'don't like to be touched by a dude' territory).
After our treatments Jay and I met back down by the pool and had a chance to Facetime with the girls for a bit and wish my Mom a Happy Mothers Day. Its only 8 hours difference, so they were just getting up. Jay wanted to Facetime his Mom right after, but its 12 hours to Vancouver so it would be 4am...and as much as she loves him, I'm sure she doesn't want a call at 4am!
From the pool we went up to the room to get changed and I said to Jay I needed to see if they have a pharmacy for some feminine products, which I totally didn't plan for when I was coming here though I knew the timing would be right. I ended up having to go to the concierge and get some tampons delivered from a pharmacy - I don't need them for a few days potentially, but there is no where close to get anything like that. Each hotel is a resort compound with security and there are no neighbourhoods close by. So the box themselves was 21 dirhams ($7) and then I had to pay a 20 dirham delivery fee...$14 isn't bad considering they were delivered from off-site right to my room!
Came up to the room and got changed for the cocktail reception before dinner and then headed down. About 10 minutes after we arrived Mark and Lorna arrived...Mark said he was reading the blog and wanted to get down there before us so that he was first! Lol. It didn't happen though! Even though the cocktail reception started at 7:00pm and went to 8:00pm and we said we would meet them at 7:30pm and got there right on time..they got there last.
At the cocktail reception we met Joel and Jana a couple from Halifax and they would be the youngest here. They got married in August of last year, I would say Joel is 30ish? It was nice though, they then came and sat with us (us being Jay and I, Mark and Lorna) at dinner and then we went out for a drink with them afterwards. Dinner was in one of the restaurants in the hotel, a Lebonese place - I tried chicken liver, so that's something.
Now I'm just in bed and Jay went with Mark to a cigar lounge at the other end of the hotel to have a scotch. Tomorrow is bright and early an 8:15am start in the lobby for a tour of Old Dubai and a spice and gold market - should be fun!
My Mom just texted me to ask me when school starts tomorrow. I texted her back drop off and pick up times and she wrote back "I asked the girls when school starts and they said: 1 - About half an hour after we eat breakfast and 2 - when we are ready to go" So funny!!
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