The Send off

Well, it has finally happened. After about five months of preparing, anticipating, getting let down and then getting the email last Monday morning, I am in Dubai, UAE!! I guess good things come to those who wait. We'll see if it is worth all the hype.

Before leaving though, some friends were nice enough to get together at the Foundation Room at the House of Blues to send me off. It was a good time, I really do enjoy that venue!!

Here are a couple pics from the evening

This is Angie, Aaron and Dennis hanging out. Aaron is a friend of mine who also happens to bar tend at the Foundation Room

From Left to Right - Brandon, Oscar and Sara. If all goes well, Brandon will be joining me in Dubai in a few weeks - he's excited to get on the engagement I'm working on.

These are my two partners in crime....clearly not happy about me leaving and men of few words - they express themselves through sign language.

As per usual, the night got interesting, and we ended up cutting a rug!! Which in the Foundation Room is quite literal as it is wall to wall Oriental rugs!!!

These are just a few of the pics from that evening. It was so great to see most of my friends before I left. Not exactly knowing when I'd return to Dallas, I needed to have some good memories to last me a while. The pictures that were taken as well as those pictures that friends brought for me to take are going to be like a warm hug while I'm out here in the Middle East!!