RAK Camping

This past weekend it was finally time for Linnea to go on a school trip. She was so excited as she took off for a two nights-three day adventure trip to Ras Al Khaimah.

She came back all giddy and had had a fantastic time! They had stayed in a Mountain Centre in Ras Al Khaimah, built on a natural hot spring, and they had taken part in different activities like night hiking, canoying, abseiling, wilderness survival and they also had a BBQ night, and shared stories around the camp fire.

I am hoping I'll be able to share some photos once I the school shares them with us!

A blast from the past

While in Ras Al Khaimah I bumped in to an old friend of mine, literally! It was so weird, while at the breakfast buffet sitting at the table next to us, was Christina and her family - a friend from our old Horsham days! Lucas used to play with her son Marcus, who is one year older than him; and her son William is only 3 days younger than Linnea!

We had noticed earlier that there was a lot of Swedes at this particular hotel, and had found out that the charter company Tui uses it for their guests, although without any local representation. Christina was there on winter holiday together with her three siblings, their families, plus her mum.

How weird?!
I mean, had we come down half an hour later they would've already been finished; or if Christina had been sitting with the rest of her family they would have been outside while we were inside. Such a fun coincidence, it was really nice to catch up!

We last saw each other in 2007 when we left England for Brunei. The kids had all grown a bit since then...

A short staycation

School is (finally!) back tomorrow after another long break. Three and a half weeks.., maybe it just felt never-ending since we didn't really make anything out of it? So this last week of the holidays, we decided to go away for a short staycation for Nathan's two days off.

We ended up booking ourselves into a Hilton resort in Ras Al Khaimah, the most northern of all the emirates. Our first time for all of us there, only two hours drive from home actually.
We didn't venture about much other than down to the mall when we arrived, for lunch, as our room wasn't ready. Then we just enjoyed the resort.

Here's the view from our balcony:

I decided to go down and enjoy the sunset from the beach:

Then we went to the Belgian Beer Café for dinner, om nom nom..!