Monday, August 9 , 2010

As promised Master Bedroom curtains arrived this morning and were promptly installed. Rest of house to be delivered by late Thursday.

Early this afternoon the air conditioners stopped putting out cold air, just the fans seemed to be operating. Hours later the electrician showed up with only a light bulb attached to 2 wires and a screwdriver! He worked on fused box for many hours without any success. Left and promised to return tomorrow to fix it. Hope he brings more tools?

Electricity went completely out tonight. Thank God, I filled the bathroom tubs with water to take quick cool down baths, and flush the toilets, (hurricane training) because along with the  electric failure followed the water pumps failure. This meant no running water at all. Not to worry we had plenty of bottle water for drinking.  Temperature inside the house soared to 33C outside was 50C. 

Poor paddy was so over heated he could barely move. He refused to drink water. I started pouring water on him to force him to lick it off. Then I gave up and gave him a cool bath with me! We stayed in the cool water off and on all day. Needless to say I am slowly unpacking. House is just too hot.

Erik came home from work to find this dilemma. We could not go to a hotel, no one would let us take Paddy. We could not leave him in the house alone. So we all stayed home. It was a miserable night with little sleep, but certainly they would get this fixed and tomorrow would be a better day? Durning the night Erik got a brilliant idea which allowed us to sleep for a few hours. He soaked towels and covered us with the wet towels. It really worked. We stayed a bit cooler. He slept with Paddy on the marble floor down stairs most of the night. The floor was too dirty for me to think about sleeping on. 

Durning the night the lights kept coming on and off even though nothing was turned on. Needless to say it was a little scary.

Hopefully the cleaning company will show up in the morning. I have hired a company to clean from top to bottom. I am keeping my fingers crossed. House was not cleaned properly when construction was finished, so sand is everywhere! It will begin to feel like home once the cleaning is complete.

Welcome to Dubai,

Inshallah till tomorrow