Mama Mia #48

Where did the time go that my girls did these performances for us... I wish they would never have ended.

So funny!

So cute!

So adorable!

BUT GONE... are these times!

So what's left over are a few videos....

Now I wish I took more!!

Remember if you have kids in the performing stage, video tape it ALL!!

See here a few of the videos of times gone by.... ;-(

The girls watched the Mama Mia movie at least 20 times... look at their passion... you even hear my mother and Dirk at the background.... Money, Money, Money!



By the way: these cute little polka dot tops the girls are wearing are coming from a Dutch Designer: Br@nd for Girls, check out their site, cute cute cute!! I wish I could order online, but it will never reach my address since the postal system is so corrupt here and steals a lot from packages... unfortunately! The quality is so good in this clothing line, check their online shop and order something you will be pleasantly surprised how good, how fun, how beautiful it is!!

"Lay all your love on me" Jasmine is the girl and Juliet plays the boy from the movie and they push and shove each other like in the movie :-) But then JJ finds it not funny anymore and I stop the movie. My mom giving directions in the back ground... too funny!



And for a while they were totally into Belly Dancing, I even bought them a costume. No words... just dancing :-)



This is only 3 years ago... but they would NEVER do this again!!

Too bad!! I had so much fun watching them.

See all our videos on YouTube, search for Funkydoodledonkey as one word.

Enjoy your day!
Do you have videos to share?

Mireille xx

Sleeping under the stars in the Desert

So after the dune bashing we are on our way to more adventures, like the camel riding, having our hands painted with henna, smoking a sheesha (water pipe) eating an Arabic BBQ, which was so delicious! Inspired me to cook more at home from this region... watching a belly dancer and another fabulous male dancer who carried layers of skirts and kept turning around and around with those heavy fabrics, just amazing to see! He even had lights in them!!

And then of course the part we all looked so much forward to, the sleeping at the camp, staying there overnight, in an open hut, just us and a few guards/cooks who took care of us, some camels and a few sheep we heard in the morning, although we never saw them, we clearly heard them :-)

So we picked this beauty to be our riding buddy... isn't he cute?



The lines of people wanting to have a camel ride was quite long, so Dirk and me decided not to go on, but the girls certainly did!





Here they go on the second camel!



This is our camp, where we are having the BBQ, belly dancing, henna painting, sheesha pipe and later sleeping.... Do you see on the right hand side, there are 2 roofs a bit higher? That is where we sleep, there were 2 open rooms, just a roof and no walls on the side on the second floor, so no scorpions or other creepy animals... We and 1 other couple stayed overnight, so much fun!



Look at these fabulous designs on our hands.. here Jasmine



Juliet's hand



The girls with the henna lady...



and me. The black thick ink falls off and then the brown ink stays for at least 10 days on your skin.



The belly dancer who was actually a Russian lady :-)



This male dancer, he was really amazing!





The girls are excited to sleep under the stars and totally outdoors! The mattress and pillows are filled with desert sand, hard as a rock, so I didn't sleep that much...



5:15 am and the sun is getting up as we... sheep are heard around the camp, but I don't see them. Birds are flying everywhere around us, hoping to steel some of our breakfast...



The view of the camp in the morning... we are off back to our hotel again. This was so much fun!!



Our next destination is ABU DABI!!

What a beautiful week this is!!
Mireille

Wacky Wednesday #6

Last year we went once to a bar in NYC where real belly dancers come to your table and dance for you. The girls were totally mesmerized by these dancers and of course had to re-enact the whole scene at home. So out came the belly dancing outfits and the girls did a performance for us. Including the money part; tradition is that you place a dollar bill on the head of the dancer while she is performing. Fun to see how the girls can get into such thing, especially Jezz in the front has all the right moves!

See how they put their little piggy banks next to the performance mat?? How wacky is that!





Have a Wacky Wednesday y'all!
Mireille