Daytrip to Oman

Wow I've been really slack about this blogging thing. April has flown by.

Let's see, so the last post was Alysia's birthday which was end of March. Since then, we did a daytrip to Musandam. Pictures describe it better so here ya go!

The photo above is Christine, Nick, Osama, our captain, Crissy, Ginger (Rob), Mila, me and Meredith. Christine is Nick's sister who was in town visiting. Meredith is Crissy's friend from the states who was visiting. The rest of the crew is basically who I hang out with every day!

Nick enjoying a jellyfish we fished out of the sea. Mila and I tried it too - we agreed, it's not as good as the jellyfish we normally eat! ;-)

Chillin on the boat (don't know why I'm the only one with a beer in hand but....)

Sunset in Musandam

Musandam's a pocket of Oman in the UAE. Really pretty scenery and good for getting away from the "hustle and bustle" of Dubai. We hired a boat for the day for some swimming, snorkeling, fishing.

In typical Dubai fashion, it was a bit of a process to get there. We were meant to meet at the villa at 10am to caravan out to Musandam. At 930, I get a wakeup call from Crissy. Just before 10, she and Meredith arrive. Nick calls and is en route at about 1015. Osama's also driving but we can't get ahold of him. He's fast asleep (we had a bbq at his place the night before and didn't wrap up the evening til sunrise) so we had to wait for him to stir. Finally hit the road, collect everyone around 11am. We're supposed to be at the boat at noon. The drive is supposedly an hour and a half. Takes a bit longer when you only get directions one at a time. Crissy was the navigator and basically we start with "head to Emirates Road." Easy enough. About 45 minutes later, she calls the guy we arranged the trip with for directions to the port. He susses out our location and tells us to take the next exit, go right around the roundabout and when we see the cement factory to call him for the next set of directions. We get to the roundabout and it's blocked. Not to mention at this point, Osama realizes he's got about 15km left on his tank and we're 20km from the next petrol station. Anyway, we finally are able to fill up and get back to directions to Musandam. We continue with this calling-for-directions-every-3-minutes process until we finally get to the port. We're about 2 hrs late but oh well. Turned out to be a beautiful day in the sunny Middle East and a great time.

So fun, we're doing it again tomorrow.