Rain, water, and Bush

Let me apologize first for my lack of posts. We celebrated Thanksgiving here at our place with several other expats and cooking while my little pickle was roaming around proved a bit challenging! Then I had to prepare for the month long sojourn home.

Anyway, we're back and unpacked and adjusted to the time zone and waiting for the sun to come out again. For the past week we could have been in Washington (the state) instead of the desert. The rain keeps quietly falling and water has been finding its way into the villa. I haven't ventured out beyond our neighborhood, but I hear that flooding is rampant and several cars in typical Dubai mentality find their way into the "puddles" and surprisingly stall out. I'm sure adding water to the driving situation here is beyond scary!

If that weren't bad enough, we get an email on Sunday detailing road closures on Monday for President Bush's visit. The major highway is listed as well as several roads near the airport and around the mall area. Since alternate routes are non existent, the government decided to declare a holiday - George Bush Day. What was hilarious is that commercials were being aired on Monday afternoon for different routes to take to the airport. Might have been a little more useful earlier...

Day before yesterday I'm downstairs playing with the baby when I hear the unmistakable gush of water UPSTAIRS. I'm thinking that all the rain has caused a hole in the ceiling or some other horrible calamity. I sprint up the stairs and follow the sound to our bathroom where our ass cleaner is hosing down the room. I guess it was getting pissed from lack of use. For those of you who are clueless...the bathrooms here all have the spray nozzles next to the toilets for...well you know. We happily stick with toilet paper here, so the sprayers sit. I have attached a picture of the guilty nozzle.