I am at the end of a four day weekend, and ready to back to school for the last two weeks of term one. Mark and I decided it would be nice to see a bit more of the country, so we got in the car and headed north. We followed the map, and drove for about two hours, until we got to a place on the map called the "Friday Market". We stopped here because it looked quite interesting. We had been looking for a floor rug, and the Friday Market had floor rugs by the thousands. We inspected a few, before settling on an Iranian silk rug, 2 metres by 3 metres in size. It is quite traditional, and very beautiful. It looks lovely in the lounge room. I paid AUD 166, so was pretty happy. I talked the vendor down a hundred dirhams, and off we went.
We drove on to the seaside resort town of Dibba, but didn't like the look of it too much, so kept driving along the coast until we got to the Fujairah Rotana hotel, where we stopped for lunch. What a beach-side paradise. The restaurant was right on the beach, and there were lots of tourists sunbathing and swimming. We took a different road back, over the Hajar mountains, and through a spectacular tunnel cut through the mountains.
Today I had a phone call from my lovely librarian. She had been waiting to have her baby, it was due any day. Finally the baby had arrived, a beautiful baby boy she called Mohammed. Mark and I visited her and her husband in the hospital, we were fed so much that we didn't eat for the rest of the day. Mother and baby are both beautiful and well.
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