About this and that...

Not very inspired to write today, but I also feel that I should be updating my blog regularly, so here are three things that made me happy recently:

1- During Eid holidays we went to Dreampark and it was AWESOME. Clean, well kept, huge and the rides were amazing. Of course, being with our small children we could only use age appropriate rides, but even so, we had lots of fun. The downside? It was overcrowded, there is no queue discipline whatsoever (but that’s goes in par with the local culture) and at some point the heat really got too much for us. We promised ourselves that we definitely will go back in winter.

2- Found out that my favourite toy store in the whole wide world just happened to open not far from where I live in Cairo. This may sound a little silly: you have to live in Cairo with your children to actually know that it is almost impossible to find good quality toys. Moreover, toys here are ridiculously expensive.
No longer so, now that ELC has finally made it to Egypt. The toys are just those that you would find in any other ELC around the world and the prices are the equivalent to its European franchises. So, we are working on our Christmas list, now that Santa has finally somewhere to go.

3- Ok, so this didn’t made me happy as such, in fact it annoyed me a little at the time, but it made me laugh afterwards, here it goes:

Isa’s family gets into a taxi, A in the front, Me and little H and M in the back, and this is how it goes:

H, speaking in English, and pointing at the driver, who is bald and has a really nasty scar on the back of his head….- LOOK! That man has no hair…hahaha! He has no hair!!!
….Silence

H, insisting that the fact that driver is bald is hilarious -BUT LOOOOOK, daddy. He has no hair!!! Ha ha ha! It’s too funny!
At this point I’m praying that driver does not speak or understand English. A looks really annoyed and tries’ to explain that it isn’t’ funny and some people simply have no hair…

Long Silence….

H: but look, he has a Bobo in his head, its very big….how did he do that?
Me: I don’t know… Hoping that the conversation takes some other turn and she forgets about the driver’s head …So, we are going shopping now, what you want for dinner?
H, not letting go off the driver’s head: Maybe he was jumping on the sofa and he fell down on his head!!!
Me, giving up: Yes, maybe…
H: Or maybe he was jumping on the bed, yes…, that’s it, he was jumping on the bed…, fell down, bumped his head and lost all his hair!; Addressing the driver now: You should be careful, no more jumping on the bed, ok?
Driver looks back, blank expression on his face, pheefff, I’m relieved he doesn’t understand. Pay and get out of the taxi.