Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dubai. Show all posts

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Christmas 2015


We started our Christmas holidays with a trip to Dubai, it was such a treat going there from Uganda, the kids were very excited for Tim Hortons, McDonalds, and Menchies, all those really important things they miss from home!

View from the top of Burj Khalifa!!

Going up the Burj Khalifa was definitely a highlight, it's realllllly high!!




Love the beach! 



Madinat Jumeirah


Dubai Marina was inspired by False Creek in Vancouver, it's beautiful! 

Walking the "red carpet" at the film festival. 


Water taxi in Old Dubai.



Souvenir shopping by the Dubai Creek. 


Beautiful Jumeirah Beach at sunset.  

We arrived back to Uganda for Christmas, getting to have baby Joshua over the holidays was very special, he is such a happy baby. 

Games with our friends on Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning!!



We went to the babies home in the morning to play with the kids while the Mamas prepared lunch, they are the cutest!








Playing with new Lego and puzzles in the afternoon, thanks to their grandparents for the gifts! 





Christmas dinner outside, we love living in Uganda!!! 

So many freckles after a day in the sun, and the cutest photo bomber. 


One of our sponsor daughters invited us for dinner over Christmas, it is always so much fun to be with her family!

We had a wonderful Christmas season and are so excited for many adventures, visitors, and even a trip home to Canada in 2016!

Happy New Year! 

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Christmas in the Middle East


One of the perks of living in Uganda is unique and affordable vacation destinations!! We were very excited to spend Christmas in Cairo with the whole family. We went for a boat ride on the Nile River on Christmas Eve and spent Christmas day riding around the pyramids on camels, it was an incredible experience!


Nile River




Giza Pyramids

Walking around the Mohammed Ali Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Egypt



Avin, getting a taste of life for a celebrity! It seemed almost everywhere we went in Cairo people would stop to talk to her, touch her hair, or even take a picture with her. She didn't mind!!





A few days before Christmas I (Shan) went to Dubai with Paul, Megan and Lizabee. It was a lot of fun to be in such a new and exciting city, especially coming from Uganda!!

The Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world, 160 floors!

 Here is a view from the observation deck, 124 floors up!!

We celebrated Lizabee's 40th birthday with tea at the Burj Al Arab, very fun! Not sure I will be able to top that!!


 Old Dubai