Bugatti

Slept all night and got up about my normal time, then daddy took me to pony club, which was good as I saw the same men from the park yesterday, Amelia came but she still won’t get on the horses, I keep trying to show her how easy it is, think her mummy (Nicky) should get on the horse instead. After all the riding around I went to the park and played with lots of the other children while daddy drank coffee and talked with some other mummy’s and a daddy (which is funny as I thought only my daddy was allowed to these things as normally its all mummy’s and him, his friends back in England probably think he likes it like that). After everyone went home, daddy asked if I wanted to see some nice cars, I said yes but think it was because he wanted to see them. First we went to look at some motorbikes and as I had my little one in my hand the salesman thought I was cool, and let me on all of them, I said daddy should get the red one as he has a green one back at Friday nanny and granddads house, he says mummy won’t let him though. Then we went to the car shop which was very big and posh, I liked the two in the front but the man didn’t have the keys so I couldn’t get in, and daddy says we can’t have a Bugatti anyway, so I moved on to the blue Lamborghini one, I think mummy would like it, but as it only had two seats there is nowhere for me (or daddy as mummy would say).Then I got to go into a gold Bentley which was very nice but it’s not very good to drive on the sand, so decided none of their cars were for me.

Important man

Today started out like any other day, got woken up by daddy making noise and shaking me, not what I’d call a good wake up but I let him off, I’d kept him up most of the night I still don’t know why mummy and daddy get all funny about me staying up at night they stay up I just wanted to make sure they were been good. Then I went to nursery and caused mayhem with Abdullah, then daddy picked me at the end of the day and we went for a drive think he wanted me to go to sleep but I’m not going to do that hehe, we ended up at the old airport park, where there was loads of stuff going on daddy says it is the interior ministry national day festival, don’t know what that means but there was loads of policemen, firemen, ambulances and people in army uniform. So anyway you all know how brilliant I am, so I went around shaking their hands, and they gave me sweets and gifts. I think the whole thing was just so all the police people could come and meet me, I got to ride a police horse, drive a car (ayes actually drove a car), then I saw the men from MY royal stables, they had guns so when I went over to see them a different man in uniform asked if I wanted a go so (of course I did) I got to shoot a gun which was really fun, then I decided I wanted to look like a police man so I put on a uniform (the uniforms here are very different to the ones in England), They then wanted to take my photo, and the man taking the photo loved me he followed us around the whole park taking photos of me everywhere (apparently I am going to be one of the faces for the whole thing, whatever that means). Anyway, Me and daddy then went to look at the forensics people where everything was like the program that mummy’s always watching, I think she would have liked it but I got bored and decided to walk off and play on the slide, which was great, but daddy and the police men didn’t think so, apparently I’m meant to tell them know before I go wandering off, I thought everyone would know where I was, but the silly doughnuts went crazy with some kind of search for me, at least we know they can find people now (I was just testing them, hehe). After all the fuss died down and I got more freebies from the men, me and daddy went over to the old tent with a fire outside, there was lots of photos of the same man so I guessed he is almost as important as me (Yes Neo, just slightly he was only the founder of the UAE – Sheikh Zayed – THE MOST important guy in the UAE), we sat down ate some cakes and daddy had some coffee and he talked to some of the local men about living in Abu Dhabi, I just played with some bits of wood to make my own fire but they wouldn’t let me light it, they were trying to take my photo but I decided I had had enough photos and kept running away, after that we went home and to bed, think I’ll let mummy and daddy sleep tonight.

Shain's Birthday

Today is Shain's birthday, I couldn’t wait to see her I wonder how old she is? As she likes the same films as me and has a robot clock which I like. When mummy came home from work we all got showered and dressed in posh clothes as mummy said we are going out for dinner with Shain don’t know why we’re all dressed up though we don’t normally, but when we got to the place I knew why it was the bank where daddy got thrown out, I wanted to ask why we were at the bank for dinner? But decided to keep quiet I guess they know what they’re doing. Well it turns out the bank also has somewhere you can eat they don’t have banks like this in England, well I had a great time playing around with some of Shain's friends and everyone loved dinner, me and daddy went home after dinner as I needed my bed, mummy stayed out and I don’t know when she came home. mummy says she came home after 4 am and that she had a great night and was mingling with a random bunch of people) .

Nursery

Back to nursery today, mummy is back at work don’t know what daddy is going to do all day though Nursery was great, Abdulla was there when I arrived as soon as I saw him I ran over said hello and left daddy being a doughnut on his own, hehe. In the afternoon daddy came to pick me up I was having so much fun and he says I didn’t notice him I did I just wanted to stay because its lots of fun at Jigsaw nursery with my friends. After we got home we watched a bit of my new favourite film ‘Cars’, then we went out to the garden, Abdulla and his mummy came out to play, which was good as I love playing with him. About 5 minutes later mummy arrived and chatted to Abdulla’s mummy then I went to Abdulla’s house with his mummy, but my mummy and daddy went off somewhere, they are making a habit of this, I might have to do something about this (any ideas let me know). Well I stayed at Abdulla’s for ages I even had dinner and went to bed there, I really liked that and think I’ll do it again maybe he can stay at mine next time. Mummy FINALLY arrived really late, woke me up and took me to my bed. I asked mummy why could I not stay I had been good, even Abdulla’s mummy said I was very good and well behaved.

Mummy and daddy are up to something

 I woke up this morning with mummy and daddy in a funny mood they seemed in a real hurry to do everything, which is normal for mummy as she’s always running late for things but both of them is not right so I decided to have fun and take my time over everything and just ignored them trying to rush me. Finally we arrived at the hospital, mummy said it was a good job that we didn’t have an appointment, so we arrived and took a ticket and waited about 2 minutes later the doctor arrived and took us into a room, and daddy put me onto a bed, that when I decided to have some fun everyone wanted to know if I was going to be brave, sometimes I don’t think they know me. Of course I’m brave, I’m Neo silly doughnuts (this is what I call grown-ups, it sounds the same). Well the doctor started she asked if it hurt so I said yes, she looked all worried and I gave mummy a cheeky grin, the nurse started again so I just kept saying ouch, but gave the game away by laughing and smiling, whilst she took out my stitches. And the best news the doctor said that because my eye is all better so I can go swimming again and cause more trouble.

Later on mummy and daddy took me to Shain’s house, they said they had to go do more boring paperwork, I thought they had been getting much too easy of a week so I decided to try and upset them by having a really big paddy fit doing my best fake crying and saying don’t leave me I even ran out the door after the. I think it worked because they looked really upset, It’s about time I’ve been practicing my tantrums for at least a month now and think I’ve got it nailed now. Once they had left I chilled out and started having fun with silly Shain, I think she thinks she’s a kiddy like me as she’s got all the same kids films and more than I have.

Well when mummy and daddy got back they had a new t-shirt for me and were showing Shain a load of photos of racing cars, I WILL attach some of their photos on here, I don’t think they WERE doing paperwork, what do you think? I’ll let it go this time but I think I’ve got to keep an eye.

Lazy day

Today I went to the park in the morning, then went to the boring food shop for basic supplies bread and milk, but the bonus of this is that I got to go to Sparkle’s (the fun fair, in the shopping mall), then back home for lunch ‘n’ ZzZz’s and then we went to the beach, so today’s fun definitely made up for yesterday’s boring day.

Boring ...

Today we got up early and went to do some REALLY boring stuff we had to go and try to sort out mummy and daddies driving licence, and to begin mine and daddies visa’s. When we arrived (at 9:30am) there was only about 10 people in there daddy was told to go and wait by desk 9 to be told what to do, mummy did her normal thing got bored waiting and went off and had all the certificates attested AGAIN, mummy says that if we get any more stamps on our certificates we won’t be able to see the actual certificates. So anyway mummy got the attesting done, daddy was STILL sat in the same place still waiting for desk 9, so mummy came back waited for another 10 minutes and got bored again, so walked off again this time she went to a miserable woman to have all of the certificates translated, the miserable woman took our certificates and said that we can’t get them back until Saturday once mummy returned to daddy she waited 2 minutes before jumping in to speak to the man at desk 9 as during the time that daddy was waiting two Arab men jumped in front of him (mummy doesn’t like anyone pushing in front of her). So mummy spoke to the man who typed a load of stuff up in squiggles (Arabic), so final after 2 and half hours we left PART of the way there on mine and daddies visa, well kind of there are the following stages to getting our visas –

1.       Have certificates attested DONE
2.       Have certificates translated DONE
3.       Have application typed in Arabic DONE
4.       Hand in the application form, a copy of mummies salary details and translate certificates to immigration (receive a pink form)
5.       Take pink form to a typist, to type up application for an emirates ID card (receive a different white form for ID card)
6.       Go and have a medical (X-ray for TB and blood test for HIV & DNA)
7.       Go to the ID building (to be finger printed and photographed) and receive a receipt
8.       And finally you take the pink form, ID receipt and medical results to immigration
9.       WOO HOO have residency visa stamp put into passport

As you can see from the list above we have started but that’s it, we have a long way to go, anyway in the afternoon we did more car shopping. 

After I  went to bed mummy went out to something called a ladies night (not sure if mummy is much of a lady), ladies night basically means free entry and free champagne to all ladies for a period of time, mummy went to the yacht Club which gives free bubbly to all ladies between 7pm and 1am, mummy and her friends only stayed there until 11pm then they went to the beach to the ‘Yaslam’ stage to see that funny man who doesn’t know his name ‘Why Clef’ (Wyclef Jean) mummy says that he was amazing but very weird being at a gig without alcohol and that its really weird (but great) to go out drinking and not to spend a penny (or dirham).

Eid Party

Me, Mummy and Shain.

Mummy went to see a man in the bank, she says they are a waste of time I think they are mind readers and just listen to me because I had fun winding mummy and daddy up while they waited ages. A had a massive sleep which took up most of the afternoon and when I woke up and played in the park and then in the evening we went to Shain’s for an Eid party, which was great as I got to eat a lot of food which I had never tried before, I really liked some Indian sweet which was rice noodles with milk and cinnamon.

Car hunting

More car hunting Shopping booooooorrrrrrrrrring . . . though I liked the really big car. I slept a lot as the drugs the doctors gave mummy and daddy to give me make me very tired, so not much to say about today.

Al Ain Zoo

Today we had to go back to the hospital, for the doctor to look at my eye, they must have memory’s like fish as they only saw it on Friday, maybe they just like looking at me as I am the one everyone likes to see out here (blonde curly haired boy), after the doctor was finished. We went for a drive I was bored and tired, which is simple terms means I was hell, after years in the car we ended up in a big car park, after we walked for hours (about 15 minutes in normal time but in the heat it feels like hours) we ended up at Al Ain zoo. The zoo was great and my new friend Matt and his mates (mummies work mates) were there too, I think Matt is great he is funny and silly he thinks he is about 5 years old but actually he is mummy’s age. At the zoo, I got to see loads of animals but there was a ‘little sad monkey’, daddy said he was sad “because the big monkeys didn’t invite him to their party”, which is not nice. There was also some penguins, mummy said it was really weird walking into what seemed to be a giant freezer seeing a big group of penguins swimming and walking around two of them were doing a dance like the ones on happy feet. We also got to see a couple of camels (the first ones which mummy has seen), so me and mummy gave them some food but they seemed to think my hair was food and kept trying to eat it. I also got to feed some giraffes carrots, who knew they would like eating carrots. After the zoo we all went to get some food for ourselves, not very exciting but I got a new car seat its red (I chose it) it’s a racing car one.

Zombie

Today we didn’t do very much as mummy and daddy thought a day resting would be better for me and my poorly eye, surprisingly I haven’t woken up to a black eye today. Me and mummy spent the morning cuddling up under a duvet watching different kids films, daddy says they are junk, but mummy likes just cuddling up with me and being a zombie in front of the television (mummy says especially when it’s not the same films which I play over and over again). After our lazy morning we went out and met up with Shain, to go and check out the deals on cars but mummy and Shain forgot that it’s Eid (silly Shain she is a Muslim, she should know that) so everywhere was shut but we got to look at cars on display without being bothered by strange men trying to sell them to us.

Poorly eye

Today me, mummy and daddy went to a Brunch at ‘Le Royal Meridian’, Brunch here is nothing like brunch in England, you basically you pay one sum and eat and drink all you want between the hours of 12-4pm and have the added bonus of accessing the hotels pool for the day, there are two different costs one with adult juice (alcoholic drinks) and one with soft drinks mummy paid about 30 GBP for Daddy and 20 GBP for her and I was FREE (you can guess who was drinking the adult juice). I stuffed my face on sushi followed by Italian followed by a mountain of parma ham (PORK !! PORK !! PORK !! – this is something which as hard to find over here as they don’t like pigs – They don’t like them that much that customs took all my pigs out of our shipment) followed by roast beef and topped with chocolate pudding and lemon ice cream, oh yeah not to forget candyfloss. So after my mountain lunch/brunch I went swimming and had loads and loads of fun jumping in and out of the pool but that’s when the worst thing happened I banged my head in particular my right eye lid on the edge of the pool which unfortunately have a slightly sharp edge resulting in my eye lid splitting open (I have to say that the lifeguards there were great as they wrapped me in a towel to keep me warm and applied what mummy called gauze to my eye -  mummy says that there was a lot of blood). We drove to our local hospital Al Noor, as soon as we arrived in the emergency I was put onto this weird bed that went up and down, then a nasty man wiped my eye which started it pouring with blood again the doctor then came over and looked then said something to my daddy when daddy and the man who wiped my eye wrapped me into a sheet with my arms stuck by my sides then the doctor poked my eye and told me the keep my eyes shut, I felt a sharp  scratch followed by a funny feeling which I now know was stitches daddy said I had 5, I told him ”next year when I’m older I can have more”.

Eid

Woo hoo mummy has a week off of work as of today as it is Eid. In the evening I went to a surprise party for Matt, as he left mummies work (he was only working there covering for Abbi as she had a baby) any I was the one little person there, but I had fun as Matt played silly games with me.

Ponies

Yesterday I went to AD mums pony club AGAIN, this time we took Amelia and Nicky with us, Amelia cried when the pony started to move, I was trying to show her it was nothing to be scared of by giving her the royal wave whilst riding around the paddock, hehe. But the BIG NEWS of today mummy got back her passport today with an added stamp saying that she is now a legal residence of Abu Dhabi – that means that we can now begin to apply for residency so hopefully soon we too will be legal (we can hope).
Wednesday 2^nd November –Today I went swimming, nothing exciting to say other than I got wet.