Waking up to blue skies is definitely one of my favourite things in life, not having to apprehensively peer round the curtain to see if the sun is making an appearance (a very irregular occurance in England). After a long sleep in, we woke our selves up with pancakes, made chez moi, and headed over to Safa Park. This is another one of the beautiful parks in Dubai, however this time is was hot hot hot, reaching about 45 degrees at 1pm! We arrived and immediately set down a big blanket with our picnic like good little british girls, scoffed our face with salad and fruit and after eating enough to feed an army, laid flat out on the fresh green grass for some tanning time.
This didnt last long as we all got very hot, very quickly. So we headed over to the park onto the swings, mucked about in the sand and climbed the climing frames... would you believe we're all actually 19?!
Nina spotted a very good climbing tree, she has a very strange obsession with trees, give her an interesting tree and she will climb it for hours.
Spot the Nina?
Go Karting anyone?
There are little bridges going across the river, which you can drive up on the go karts, but be warned, these are not for the weak hearted, in 45 degree heat pedalling up a hill is not an easy thing to do, as Ellen discovered! But the view of the waterfall at the top is definitely worth it.
Ellen, happy to be back on flat land!
After tiring ourselves out go karting around everywhere we decided it was time to head back to the villa and start getting ready for the night's meal. We had decided to take a trip to the Dubai Marina, and mum had discovered some 2 for 1 vouchers for us on Groupon for a quay side Italian meal at a resteraunt called 'Carlos', so we dolled ourselves up a little and headed off.
Non-alcoholic beer...
For starters I ordered the Tomato and Mozzorella Salad.
Followed by... a margherita pizza, boring I know! But it was sehr yummy.
Ellen opted for chicken, mushroom and peas pasta.
There are unfortunately no more foody photos as the
girls were just too hungry to snap away before devouring their meals! Feeling
satisfyingly full, we paid the bill and took a stroll along the marina walk,
looking for the marina.
We walked for what seemed miles but could not find the marina anywhere, I think we may have been heading out to sea...
We eventually cut our losses and flagged down a taxi home, leaving finding the marina to another night, but meal was delicious, I would definitely recommend a trip!
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