Stories from the Eagars

What is it with my feet…..I have broken ANOTHER pair of shoes!!  Now I have an even better excuse to buy more shoes!! 

I have finally got my own car at last!!!!!!!  Andrew bought a Landrover Discovery for himself and I have been running around in my hired Toyota Camry since we got here…the reason I couldn’t get a car before now was the fact that you can’t buy a car here unless you have a residency visa and a dubai driving licence!  As I have both of these now there was no excuse!  Again…we traipsed round the garages, decided against the Porsche Cayenne (told you I would change my mind again!) and ended up seeing a really nice RangeRover Vogue that we liked.  Just as we had decided, yep we’ll take it…I spotted this people carrier thing & thought…NICE!  It is a Mercury Monterey, black with black out windows, cream half leather, a/c seats (instead of heated seats but it also has that too!!), flip down dvd player (cam was well impressed), alloys, parking sensors blah blah and it is a seven seater too which is handy for the kids.  The nice thing about it is that instead of the usual set up of 2 seats in the front, 3 seats in the middle row & 2 in the back, this has 2 in the front (obviously), 2 in the middle row & a 3 seat bench in the back.  The selling point to me was the fact the the two rear passenger doors don’t open the normal way but slide (like a minibus, I suppose) and are automatic so I can be walking towards my car, hit the button on the remote central locking and the doors slide open!!  Cool eh!  Even better still, the boot opens and closes automatically too, also by pushing a button (I’m easy pleased!!).  Anyway, I decided I really liked that car so in the end we ended up buying both!!!  I picked up the Mercury on Sunday night and we don’t get the Range Rover until Andrew is back from Houston.  Oh … as you have probably guessed, Andrew is in Houston just now!!!   All we need to do now is sell the Discovery (no point in being greedy and having 3 cars is there!!)

Not been up to much else really.  Was laid up this past few days with a really dodgy stomach bug (that’s as much info as I’m willing to share) but much better now. We were meant to have a dinner dance next Thursday night at the Dusit hotel but as Andrew will still be away, I don’t really fancy going on my own as the rest of our table are couples & I’d feel a bit of a spare part!  However, on the Friday night we have an 80’s night at the Irish Village.  Go West, Tony Hadley & Martin Fry (the guy from ABC) are performing.  There’s a crowd of us going & I won’t feel too bad going to that on my own as although it’s a heap of couples, it’s more laid back and us girls will more likely be boogying and leaving the blokes at the bar!!

Anyway…must go now… I need to buy new shoes seeing as my favourite ones broke!!!