Heya! I know, I know don't fall off your many various types of furnishings (whether it be your bed stool, chair, sofa or floor...can you fall off the floor? ) Katie has (about bloody time!) written a new journal. I had a fantastic time in Dubai. It certainly is a very different country...I love experiencing different ways of life. It's so extreme from what I saw - you get big shiny buildings and lots of money on one side but on the other side, very poor and run down areas. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium. The hardest part was that for most of the two weeks there, it was Ramadan. How in the hell do people that fast manage to go 12 hours without food? I take off my hat to you! One day, I went to meet my good friend ~alosh3 We were together about 5 hours, hanging out in Dubai Mall, looking in the various shops as he wanted some t shirts. We rode the newly opened Metro to the Mall of The Emirates. The Metro stations oh my god, really puts the crappy UK train stations to shame. They are works of art baby! These malls were like nothing i've ever seen too, wow if I was made of money! So yeh, by the end of the day I was gasping for a drink and starving! I ended up going to the Carrefour supermarket, buying me a fat sandwich and a juice, hiding in the toilets to have some of it! Don't worry, the toilets were cleaner than some of the restaurants here It was awesome to meet with him FINALLY though, we've known each other through dA for a few years now. We had lots of fun

It was lovely spending lots of time with my dad too (he lives in Dubai if you didn't know hehe.) We stayed in a hotel resort in Jebel Ali, the most beautiful hotel i've stayed in We had dinner one evening on the river, they call the place Batteaux Dubai The food was gorrrrgeous. I also discovered my love for Lebanese food. Wow! Out of this world Sheesh i'm hungerish now. Oh and we went on a jeep safari. I nearly made a mess in my knickers haha, it was freaking awesome. They take you in a jeep up and over, around and around these HUGE sand dunes in the desert. Such an adrenalin rush. They then drove us to a part of the desert where there were low tables laid out with cushions on the floor for you to sit on. I truly felt like I was abroad that night! lol. They put on a lovely spread of food and a not so lovely belly dancing show. She had a bit too much hanging out if you know what I mean. I took lots of photos, as some of you may have seen the ones i've submitted recently (see left column if not hehe) One daaang annoying thing, because of the baaad humidity over there, every time I went outside from being in a lovely cool air conditioned place the lense of my camera would steeeam baby steam. It was awful, I missed a few photographic opportunities cos of that. Ohhh well I still got some i'm happy with.

This week, was given the task to sort three prints to enter into a competition in the photographic society. Will enter a couple of the older ones - Twisted Firestarter and Evolution along with the newer All In A Day's Work So fingers crossed there!

I best get off, i've chatted on. Thanks for your support peoples, have some cake on the house...or in the house, it's upto you

p.s. check out the fantastic deviations below *points downwards*