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).