About time!

It might be slightly bad timing, as we are moving slowly into the warmer months, but - I have finally returned to the padel court! After a three year (!) hiatus!

We now have two padel courts here in our compound that you can book (well, if you are fast enough once the bookings are released) for free. There is also a WhatsApp group where people look for players, so in preparation for getting back to playing with other people, Nathan, Matt and I booked and went down to hit some balls one afternoon.

It did get a bit hot... 

I managed to remember (mostly) how to do it, so I now I have thrown myself into playing in every game I could get into! So. Much. Fun!

Hopefully I'll get in many more games before the weather becomes unbearable. 

The SwedishLadies enjoying Picasso

The Picasso, the Figure exhibition has attracted a lot of attention since opening. I have already delivered a bunch of tours of it, and this week it was time for the SwedishLadies-group to come.
It's always different to deliver in Swedish, as it happens so rarely. But this time it went rather well. These stories are so much fun to tell, I enjoy every part and every room of this exhibition.

A rather big group this time! A great morning!

Livin' la vida loca

Linda got 2 tickets to Ricky Martin for Christmas from her husband, and he told her she could bring "anyone", not really offering to go himself, ha ha! I put my hand up of course, who wouldn't like a latino evening!
Furthermore I was invited for dinner at Mamsha prior to the concert, as my birthday gift from Linda - so spoiled!

The concert was at the Saadiyat Nights venue, where we went to Michael Bublé last year. It's a really cool venue, and we were excited.

The concert was... ok. He did put on a show and seemed to enjoy himself, but there was no in-between chit-chat, and the stage went dark after every song which lost the vibe momentum a bit. 

We enjoyed the hits of course, but also some of the slower songs. He sure can sing, has a beautiful voice.

Fun to be out for a night, and really nice to hang with Linda. Work, visitors and life has been busy lately, so we haven't seen each other as much as we used to.