Happy B-day!

To both of our mums!

Leila ( 4rth of March ) and Muriel ( 21st of February). Also Happy B-day to Chris Lord, our nephew ( 19th of Feb.).
Hope all your wishes come true and we wish you all the happiness and love in the world. We miss you so and love you even more.

Hi Hi, I almost forgot my B-day! Happy B-day to me too, Sandie ( 3rd of march).

A Laugh! yippe dee doo!!

Book Club:

I joined a book club. It is fascinating. People are so nice and we read a book every month at someone's house. This month, the book was" "The secrest life of bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. It feels like I am back at Univeristy discussing ideas and themes.

Photo of the Month:

Happy Valentine's:
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. -William Shakespeare-

Fact of the Month:

What is the IG annual Nobel awards?
It is the proof that scientists have a sense of humour. This year's crop went to the inventor of an alarm that rings then runs away to hide, thus ensuring that the sleeper has to get up to turn it off...to scientists who researched whether humans swim faster in syrup rather than in water...to a British group who analysed the electrical activity of a locust's brain cell while the insect watched a "Star Wars" movie...and to a German team that calculated the pressure produced in penguins'anuses when the birds expel their faeces.

Mountain Extreme Race:

I don't know why really and don't ask but we decided to participate in what they call an extreme race up in the rocky mountains of Ras Al Khaimah. Someone said oh it so easy and fun. Yeah right! It was an 8 hour race where we had to hike up and down mostly and cycle our way to the 8 stages. They give you a map and there is no path most of the time, competitors need to find their way and make their own path all that while running and cycling on big rocks!



I have to admit that I was impressed with my body and what it was capable of. We did push ourselves and it was very challenging but we did it, we finished the race not on time but we made it to the finish line and it did feel great. The cutoff time was at 3:00 p.m. we arrived 10 minutes later. Not to forget that the race did start at 7:00 a.m. We actually camped there a night before. A lot of people came from all over the world just for this race.

This is the camp site. As you can see, the mountains are quite intimidating. And yes we did climb those ones! ouf!



That was our briefing at dawn.







The start!
























You can always check out the link and see the results which are not out yet but we were team number 59, the oceangurus.