Abu Dhabi, the honeymoon period is officially OVER.

So I realized this Saturday as I was in tears, screaming at the taxi that had just tried to side swipe me, and driving back from the science festival that was supposed to be open but wasn't.......that my honeymoon love affair with Abu Dhabi is officially OVER.
Gone is the "wow this place is so nice and warm" "it's great here" "it's not so bad" and amusement at the terrible driving. Replacing them are "why is it still so f*cking hot" "seriously I don't understand how things can be THIS messed up" "I hate it here" and a bitter, angry resentment at every single other driver in the city.
Now let me clarify, I don't actually hate it here most days. But now there is definitely the odd day creeping in here and there that I just want to go home. I know I have it good here in Abu Dhabi compared to the rest of the Middle East, but part of me is starting to remember how good it was back home EVERY day. Unfortunately that part of my brain also seems to have forgotten that a good part of the year back home is spent below 0 degrees C!!!!!
This country is not that bad really, it allows us expats to celebrate pagan holidays such as Halloween, and even provides decorations and candy in the stores. Apparently at Christmas there is a Santa in the mall and you can buy trees and decorations. This puts it light years ahead of other countries in this region. I can get pretty much any type of food I can imagine here, and the shopping is world class. There are lots of classes and activities in English for Reese, fabulous schooling and lots of things to see and do in the region.

But it is definitely NOT home.

And even though home is heading into winter, and the roads are about to become complete and utter crap for the next 5-6 months, and we have to pay tax there,  it is still home. I miss the change of seasons, the smell of fall and the colours on the trees. I miss the cool days and the crisp mornings and evenings. I miss the anticipation of the first snow(and yes I know some of you roll your eyes at this but I still find the first snow exciting as it means that ski season is just THAT much closer!!!)  I miss my family, I miss my friends, I miss being cold and I miss the mountains. I miss Calgary and I miss working as a nurse.

I think the love affair has ended for my husband as well, and we are now looking at the next 18 months with a big sigh and an "all right we chose this....ready....steady..........GO" kind of attitude. We will unfortunately not be home this Christmas, which when we made the decision didn't seem all that bad, but now it is a tad disheartening.

But, the Burwell family are definitely adventurers, so we will try something new this Christmas. We will go to the beach on Christmas Day, which is something that none of us have ever done before. And we will make it through the next 18 months here in the desert.

Hopefully our next project will take us closer to home. 

HAAD Licensing- the beginning of the journey

So like I said, this week I've decided I really want to go back to work as an RN full time. In my fantasy world I could accomplish this all by Christmas. In reality it is probably going to be Spring before I can ACTUALLY be licensed. Which SUCKS.

So here are the initial steps I've taken in case other nurses want to follow down this incredibly confusing and strange path.

Step 1- register with data flow for HAAD. I found out I'm exempt from the exam which is a big relief!!!
Step 2- Try to fill out the data flow and attach necessary documents.
Step 3- email IT help because the online forms won't actually LET me fill some fields out and then I can't submit that page because the field isn't filled out.
Step 4- Consider throwing computer out the window
Step 5- Yoga breathing
Step 6- Move on to something else. Email/Fax/Order online to request transcripts from the university and my HIGH SCHOOL(not sure why!!! If I have a nursing degree obviously I graduated high school!!!)
Step 7- research somewhere to get my CPR updated. FOUND ONE!!!!
Step 8- Attempt data flow on a different browser
Step 9- Give up in frustration and go watch Glee while drinking coffee.
Step 10- Wait for IT to get back to you...hopefully this week inshallah

UPDATE ****
Oh wow that was a QUICK response for this area of the world!!! Apparently I need to use it with internet explorer.....which can't be used on a mac since microsoft quit supporting it in 2005. So I'm now firing up Richard's little sony mini-laptop to try from there!!!! Ahhhhh I just love websites that are stuck in the "we only use internet explorer" world.....move on people!!!!

Barcelona CM Walk 2012

Barcelona CM Walk 2012, a set on Flickr.

Amazing Barcelona

It's been a while.....

Yeah...I went away for most of August to escape the pure insanity of the heat!!!

Then we got back to Abu Dhabi and Reese started school and my grandmother in Wales passed away quite suddenly and so I was back to Wales for a few days to grieve with the family :(
Then Reese turned FOUR!!!! I KNOW!!! She's FOUR YEARS OLD!!!!!
Then I was in Barcelona for a weekend(I'll post some pictures I promise) and we also had bad news from England as Richard's brother was in an accident and is quite ill. So all in all I haven't had time to blog since getting home until right now.

I'm also taking a masters course this semester called the philosophical foundations of nursing, which as you can imagine is thrilling(heavy sarcasm). It started off quite interesting but now I'm just wishing that the people who wrote the articles that I'm reading would just write in proper English rather than using fancy, massive words for everything. It makes my head hurt to read the articles!!

So here I go, attempting to catch up on the blog......again.
I've currently come to the realization that I would really like to return to nursing while here so today was also spent trying to figure out if that is going to be possible! I've been offered THREE jobs here so far without ever asking for one so hopefully finding work will be easy as long as CARNA back home says I can renew my license.(its all based on practice hours and I haven't practiced in two years!!!)

FINGERS CROSSED!

Today's adventure is brought to you by: CAMEL MILK

Camel milk has kept people in this part of the world alive for thousands of years. My sister had camel milk creme brulee at one of the restaurants we went to out in the desert and it was YUMMY! Camel milk chocolate is also quite good. Today Reese and I thought we would start our summer vacation off with a bang by trying the local milk. Reese was SUPER excited to try the camel milk!

Apparently camel milk is much better for the environment in this area since dairy farming uses up so much electricity and water, whereas camels can survive on very salty plants and do not require as much water as a cow.

The benefits of camel milk are:

-that it is low in lactose compared to cow's milk, so people like me who get stomach aches after drinking regular milk, are totally fine after drinking camel milk!!!!




-It has higher(within healthy normal) levels of potassium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, sodium and zinc compared to cow's milk.




-Cholesterol levels in camel milk are lower than in cow or goat milk.




-It three times the amount of Vitamin C found in cow's milk! WOW and ten times the amount of iron!!




-Also high in unsaturated fatty acids and B vitamins.




-The fat content is similar to that of cow's milk

The average camel can produce around 6-9 L of milk per day and apparently can still produce this even when eating small amounts of food and without water. Camels can go 21 days without water so this makes the camel the winner in the milk division here in the desert and in parts of the world where fresh water is scarce.  Pretty sure the cows would die within a few days without water. 

Reese was so excited and then did NOT like it at all!!!! It had a bit of a different taste to milk and at first I didn't like it either but after I took a few more sips it actually didn't taste that bad and not THAT different from cow's milk.  I finished my glass and Reese's and I probably wouldn't sit down and drink a glass of it for fun, but I'd use it in cereal or baking!!

Another fail- glitter blowing picture in 60% humidity

Yes that's right you read the title correctly. I had this idea in my mind of taking a picture of Reese blowing silver glitter at the camera, fine spray of glitter with her smiling little face behind it so outside we went to give it a try.

What I failed to take into account was the 60% humidity and the sweat that instantly occurs the moment you step outside right now so there's Reese with the glitter in the palm of her hand and when the big capture moment came.................the glitter stuck to the sweat!!!! Charming.

She DID eventually lean down and blow so hard that some of it went flying but it definitely did NOT have the effect  I was thinking of. Guess we'll try again in the winter months because I don't want this shot enough to try it inside in the AC, there would be glitter in ever nook and cranny for years to come!!

Here are some pictures of it :)
So you can see the progression here...... Top Left: you want me to do WHAT!? ok let me think about this. Top Right: GO.....and it doesn't move!!! Bottom Left: ok if I lean down and blow RIGHT at it then maybe it will work and there goes some glitter movement!!! Bottom right: BIGGER BREATH!!!!!

Apparently she needed binoculars so she could look out for flying dinosaurs in the backyard

God bless toilet roll, it has its obvious purpose and then when its empty it has about a million different uses, binoculars being one of them!!!!!

She's got the liner to her trunki on her head for some reason. It's better not to ask some days ;)

The Calm Down Jar or as Reese calls it.....The Feelings Jar!!!

We were on a roll today in our house! This is another Pinterest special which involves glitter glue, a jar, hot water and some more glitter. The theory is that kids use it like a snow globe when they're upset and then they stare at it while the glitter settles to try and help themselves calm down. We made it for fun but Reese was quite serious about the whole thing and had to sit and practice her yoga breathing while alternating between watching it and closing her eyes. Its fun to play with either way!

Here is the link to the instructions for it.
Calm Down Jar

And for the record if your kid is REALLY throwing a tantrum and/or they have a knack for hurling things while upset then this isn't the time to be giving them a calm down jar ;) Reese says she's going to use it if she's sad or angry or "frustwated"

She's showing you how to yoga breathe in the top picture!! hahaha

Rainbow Cake= Epic Fail!!!!

So any of you that are on Pinterest likely have seen the rainbow cake. It looks fun, tasty and I thought Reese would love it. Like so many before me I figured, how hard can it really be?

Now let's look at reason #1 that this was destined to fail

1.) I can't bake. Now anyone who knows me well knows this is true. You've all suffered through my cakes and cookies and the only thing I CAN make which tastes fairly normal is muffins!!! I can bake a mean muffin, but everything else is a disaster. So why the heck did I think I could bake a RAINBOW cake!? Well because it basically called for Betty Crocker cake mix and frosting, as in, I only had to mix it in with the liquid ingredients, how could I possibly screw that up!? Which leads us to reason #2 this was destined to fail.....

2.) I used coloured icing rather than gel or food colouring. I figured it was not "quite" as toxic, but apparently you don't get a good rainbow cake if you don't want toxic....my bad. Our colours were very pastel looking and not bright like the ones in the pictures!

Our "rainbow" cake ended up being a white cake slightly tinted a bit green with some pink and yellow sections to it. The green and the blue colours mostly disappeared during the baking process and then the middle of it fell(as my cakes normally do) and I slightly overdid the top of it.

It tasted like....cake from the box and we ate it but we won't be trying again!!!!!! My body did NOT like how it felt after eating the cake and I think we'll stick to strawberries for dessert instead!

My friend Kelly over at a A Swell Place to Dwell tried this too and it didn't quite work out as planned  From what I remember about when we lived together in college she's a MUCH better baker than I am, so if hers didn't turn out, I'm not sure what possessed me to try!!!! Boredom?? The heat? I'm going with those as my defence :) However if you go and check out Kelly's you can see that her cake definitely had colour!!!!! I didn't even take a picture of mine because it was SO pathetic ;)

Here's the link from Pinterest :) In case any of you are bored and want to give it a whirl. If you make it work PLEASE let me know!!!!!!!

The Rainbow Cake

Yet another Pinterest Idea!! Sidewalk Paint

Well we had another brilliant idea this afternoon to try sidewalk paint. Basically its washable paint, corn starch and water and then you paint it on the sidewalk. I checked, it DOES wash off ;)

Reese had a blast painting the back patio, then the cement wall and then her legs!!!!

The idea came from The Idea Room

We had lots of fun washing everything off too since it was SO HOT out today.

They still have the magic!!

So today we decided to print off some 1950's paper dolls that used to be printed in McCall's magazine every month from 1951-1961. Betsy McCall was the main character and she had her friends and parents to accompany her, along with a fabulous wardrobe of course.
They are now all available to print for free at
Betsy McCall Paper Dolls

Then I printed off a farm type "backdrop" from google image search and Reese played with them happily for over an HOUR!

It made me so happy that the art of playing with paper dolls hasn't been lost. They are such a simple concept that in our society today with all the electronics and fancy toys that beep and talk it's exciting to see that children still want to play with them! I remember playing with them for hours as a child, and lets be honest, I sat and had a go with these too!

Next up on: What the heck are we going to do today..............is sidewalk chalk painting. It could go either way!!!!!

How to drive in Abu Dhabi ( The Unofficial Guide)

I've been contemplating for a while now how to adequately describe the chaos and insanity that is driving on a daily basis here in Abu Dhabi so I decided to come up with a "guide", a list of unofficial rules that hopefully will stop you from getting killed!


1. When the light is about to change amber here it flashes green two or three times. This is to let  you know that you should slow down and stop because the next flash is yellow and then red and there are red light cameras everywhere. Now, the common sense thing to do would be to slow down and stop.............WRONG! DO NOT SLOW DOWN ON A BLINKING GREEN! The reason for this advice is that no one around you will expect you to do it, and it's very likely that you will get rear ended. As my husband (who caused the three car accident behind us when he slowed for the blinking green light) can tell you!!!


2. If you come from Britain, then you are well versed in the round-about and will probably lose your mind driving here. If you come from Canada where we call them traffic circles and they're still new enough for everyone to complain about,  then you don't need to read this rule because you're likely part of the problem!!!
SO...ROUNDABOUTS

• Of course you may exit from the inside lane of a 3 lane roundabout cutting across all other cars to get to your exit. Take care not to look to see if there are any cars in your way before you pull this stunt of course. 
• If you're in the outside lane where you're supposed to exit, then by all means go past the exit to the one that is 2 exits away and cause near collisions at each one as people from the inside lane try to exit. 
• According to a confidential source, who was told this specifically by the police, the only way to not be at fault when involved in an accident in a roundabout is to make sure that the roundabout is clear of all cars before entering.........hmmmmm. So on 15th street I could actually sit and block traffic for hours waiting to be the only car in the roundabout. Meanwhile, a taxi would have definitely rear-ended me while I waited. 
• While someone in front of you is waiting for the right lane to be clear so they can enter the roundabout, please lean on your horn behind them. It will definitely make them want to get out of your way and they won't be annoyed at all.

3. Don't stop at stop signs because no one expects you to! I'm not sure why those big red signs are there with STOP written in English and Arabic but I don't think its anything to do with traffic flow. Same goes with yield as no one seems to understand what that actually means. And if you come to a 4 way stop.......just close your eyes and hope for the best because the whole concept of first to arrive at the intersection is not a custom that is practiced over here! Its all about your place in the social order and its a bit hard to tell that while driving.

4. Change lanes at random intervals, without shoulder checking, while in an intersection and into gaps of traffic that are too tiny for your car to fit. It seems to be a sport over here, the taxi drivers could win gold if  lane cutting was an Olympic sport. 

5. On the highways where the speed limit is already a respectable 140km/hr, you should go about 200 km/hr and fly up about half a meter behind the car in front of you that can't physically get out of your way because of the massive trucks that drive bumper to bumper in the inside lane and you should flash your lights and lean on the horn as a way to let them know that you'd REALLY like to get past.....inshallah. 

6. Choose the most obnoxious colour you can think of and get your Porche Cayenne custom painted in it. Then, remove the boring old Porche logo and have it redone in swarovski crystals, or if you've really got a lot of "wasta" and/or a low license plate number....gold and diamonds.  The rest of us think it looks absolutely ridiculous, but hey, to each their own right!?

7. Now this one is a bit worrying. Accept the fact that if you are hit by an Emirate man or woman, you'll be at fault. This is one of those very annoying aspects of life here in the UAE and one that makes me pray I never have an accident with a local.  I'd like to say I hear stories where the local person takes the blame but I haven't heard one yet.  I have however, heard of some truly horrible situations where people have been blamed for the other car's reckless driving despite there being witnesses saying otherwise. The logic I've heard to describe this is astounding. A friend of a friend was told that the red light that the local man had run(nearly side swiping this other person's car and kids) wasn't "meant for me to stop at"  it was only there for "the others" because if these other people weren't in this person's country then they wouldn't be there for him to hit....therefore its the "others" fault if any accident occurs. See what I'm dealing with here!?! How do you even argue with logic like that? It's so utterly stupid that I can't even think of a good response!

8.Double and triple park where ever you possibly can and then abandon your car, blocking people in. People just LOVE that when its +40 out and their kids are cranky after dance class........LOVE IT.

9.And while we're on the topic of parking, pulling up to the taxi drop off in Khalidiya Mall and then just sitting in the car waiting for your womenfolk to show up is perfectly ok. Those poor taxi drivers who are now stuck behind you don't have anywhere to be of course, except you know.....making money to send home to their poor families. And of course by all means throw a complete tantrum when security asks you to circle around so that the taxis can drop off their fares and pick up the growing number of irritated expats waiting for a cab!

10.Whenever you feel like pulling into traffic is fine, please don't feel you have to wait for a break in traffic, the rest of us who know HOW to drive will hopefully be able to stop in time to not side swipe your car. 

11. Don't even get me STARTED on seat belts. No one here wears a seatbelt. NO ONE. Kids do not use car seats here which would not be so horrific if they were belted in but they aren't. They sit on laps or are bouncing around in the back of the car with their heads out the window. Babies sit on the laps of their nannies or their mothers in the front seat and its not uncommon to see children lying on the dash or the back of the car. I can't even joke about this one because I find it so utterly disturbing. Car seats save lives, seat belts save lives and you're a complete idiot if you don't take advantage of that. The #1 cause of death for children under 14 in Abu Dhabi is traffic fatalities. It actually blows my mind a little because this is a VERY intelligent and highly educated society. Many take their degrees abroad and so must know that the rest of the world restrains their children in moving vehicles, couple that with the fatality statistics and one would think that car seats would have caught on here. It IS law here that a child be restrained but its not a law that is enforced. 

So to sum it all up, at any given time when driving expect those around you to crash into you from all sides. Don't expect anyone to actually STOP at a red light or a stop sign and always be vigilant (especially in a roundabout where its a bit like playing bumper cars).




P.S. Wear your freaking seatbelt. 


**and just for the record the above guide is not seriously a guide on how to drive in Abu Dhabi and in no way should it be taken as such. Thought I'd better throw that out there just in case someone googles this topic and their English isn't quite developed enough yet to recognize sarcasm when they see it!**

The Abu Dhabi Project

So I can't really call it the Abu Dhabi Housewife because after living here for three months I don't actually believe that the wives here do ANY housework. So I've decided to call it the Abu Dhabi Project and take a slightly different approach than the Italian Housewife Project!!!

This is the first image in the collection. It is my sister, who is currently living in Saudi Arabia and has to wear an abaya daily.

The idea for this picture actually came from my grandmother Meg, who said that she really wanted a picture of Jenna's brilliant blue eyes gazing out of the black veil, so here it is!!!!!

Back in action

The last month has been a bit chaotic in our household. We had two rounds of visitors and two weeks of spring break, which meant no school and not as much time for me to be on the computer! Therefore, the blog suffered.

Our oldest dog got sick and we made the decision to move from the apartment that we were living in to a villa so we could have a backyard for the dogs. Unfortunately, we lost Henry suddenly in the middle of the night before he got the chance to experience his new backyard. Anyone who has ever lost a family pet knows that the entire family suffers when a pet dies and it takes a while to recover and move on with life.
We've spent the last two weeks packing and moving into our new villa, which is fabulous! You can tell that Cadbury misses Henry but she also seems quite excited about the new backyard.
I have about 500 pictures waiting to be edited and once I've done those I will get around to posting again..........I promise. 

I'm a little tired of the elevator conversation right now

Dear Elevator People,

You know what I'm sick of? I'm sick of people commenting in the elevator about how hard it must be to have dogs while living in this apartment building. Just when I get comfortable with it all and think everything is balanced and zen again, someone has to open their big mouth on the four floor elevator ride and burst my bubble.

Do they think that somehow I don't KNOW how hard it can be?

YES- There are two of them
YES- The brown and white one is old
YES- they have to go out four times a day to pee
YES- There isn't a lot of grass nearby and therefore;
YES- they have to pee on the sidewalk, although I make them pee over at                 the side of it near the potted plants so that people won't have to walk  through it.
YES- I walk them myself. This is usually followed by shock and horror on the face of the asker and the question "Don't you have a maid!?"
YES- I have to pick up their poop in bags
YES- I realize that it is hot and that it's going to get hotter, and that it will be rough on EVERYONE in Abu Dhabi including the dogs. What I want to say to that is that these dogs come from a place where it gets to -40, and yet somehow they have survived 7 and 12 years respectively, obviously we'll take the proper precautions.
NO- this was NOT exactly where I wanted to live but its best for our family right now and frankly I am not going to explain to a stranger why I chose not to live in a villa.
NO-I don't think abandoning them in Canada or Italy would have been a better option and I want to punch the people who think that it is. (Yes Mr. Self-Righteous Australian man in the elevator I'm talking to you)

Also to the tenants who glare at us: If you don't want dogs in your building then I suggest you move to a building that doesn't allow dogs. Its quite simple really.

I was quite sympathetic at first with the people who screamed and threw themselves against walls when they saw the dogs but I have now lost all of my sympathy. Don't get me wrong, the guys out on the street who are seeing them for the first time and are scared, I am still sympathetic towards, and do everything to keep the dogs near me and assure them that I won't let them go. The people who live in this building have seen them enough times now that they should be able to recognize a LEASH when they see one and know that me HOLDING the leash means that the dog is restrained.(just like EVERY other time you've seen them) Screaming and jumping back is only going to rile my dog up more and make it more difficult for me to make her heel because now she thinks you want to play. I want to slap a few people in this building.

But I won't.

Because I'm yoga breathing and practicing the art of biting my tongue really hard. I'm worried that one of these days I might just bite it off!

So to all of you people in the elevator, having two dogs here is trying enough some days without having to answer your questions about how horrible it must be for us. If you'd like to chat about their age, breed, colour or how happy they are that they got to stay with their family during our expat adventures then I'd be more than happy to reply.

Sincerely,
Rachel with a very sore tongue.

Picture yourself being shot like a bullet out of a gun....

...and that's what it feels like to ride the Formula Rossa, the world's fastest roller coaster.

   We stood in line for about half an hour watching this thing blast off in front of our eyes so that by the time it was our turn I was actually quite nervous! They give you these stellar looking safety goggles to put on so that you don't get your eyeballs sandblasted during the ride and the ladies wearing shaylas had to wear these tight, grey zippered jobs on the outside so their headpiece didn't fly off!!!!!

  The rollar coaster looks like a Ferrari car...of course. It slowly takes you out onto the track where there are the lights to start the "race" So basically you're counting down to the scary part!!!!

  Then the light goes green and you're off, and by off I mean that you are literally fired from the starting point and reach the speed of 240km/hr in about 4-6 seconds. So now you know why I used the bullet from a gun reference. That is what it felt like!!!!! I closed my eyes for a few seconds so my eyes are squeezed shut in the picture that they took of me. I made myself open my eyes just half a second before we shot up into the air and over the first high peak of the ride. It felt like we were about to launch to mars!

  It didn't really slow down the entire ride, you constantly had the feeling that you were going WAY too fast, up and down and around and around in circles. I can honestly say it was the most exciting roller coaster I have ever been on! Its quite a simple design, up and down and circles, no loops. But its the SPEED that you're travelling that makes this roller coaster so awesome. We got off and I really just wanted to run around and get back in line!!! However, we had to go and collect the three year old so that Auntie Jenna and Kristin could have a turn on the roller coaster. I will definitely be taking my thrill seeking guests out there to try it out!!!!!!

Ferrari World also had some other rides worth checking out, there was a drop of doom type ride but that was closed the day that we were there. Richard and I paid to go on the Ferrari F430 Simulators where you sit in an actual Ferrari F430 which is attached to a large screen and then you drive on the F1 Abu Dhabi track like in a video game. The difference is that the car tilts and shudders depending on how good (or crap!) your steering is, and how fast you were going. I was actually thoroughly nauseated by the time I was done on that simulator but I had a HUGE grin on my face!!!! I crashed six times, mainly because I would just give it on the straight parts to see how fast I could get my simulated ferrari to go and then I'd try to Tokyo drift the corners which I can assure you does NOT work on a formula one track!!!!!!!

There were simulators like at the arcade where you raced 10 other drivers that were free and tilted like the big simulator just on a smaller scale. There was a simulator where you sat in with a formula one driver and raced along with him in the passenger seat of the car. There was a log ride that took you through a Ferrari engine and then spits you out the exhaust pipe for the final drop of the ride, pretty freaking cool.

Reese enjoyed Bella Italia, which is a car ride through a miniature Italy in "vintage ferraris" They did a great job recreating Italy and the cars you ride in are super cool!!!! They have mini F1 and ferrari car go-karts for the older crowd and for the little ones. Reese ran a stop sign, took the roundabout the wrong way and crashed into the wall about eight times but she had a blast doing it :)

There is also another rollercoaster where two roller coasters race on two parallel tracks with all these areas where you're slingshotted forward, it was pretty fun as well but not as cool as the Formula Rossa!!!!!!!!

I highly recommend Ferrari World, if you like scary rides, or even if you're just a fan of Ferraris( and come on.....who doesn't like Ferraris!!!!!)

The signs as you're heading into the MASSIVE building!

The tunnel leading to the ticket area

This is what it looks like from the air!!!!! The top right side of the picture you can see the tracks for the Formula Rossa

Such a cool looking building

Whoever designed this deserves a medal

DROOL!!!!!

Just like the Italians to go hanging cars on walls

The engine part walkway, all lit up

Belle Italia!!!!

In a vintage FERRARI!!!So cool

Apparently these two thought it was a roller coaster 

The F1 Simulator

The Go Karts!

The Track

The F430 Simulator

Oh that's right I'm sitting in a freaking FERRARI!!!! Harder than I thought to drive this sucker on a simulator!!

Richard having a go

Reese's first time driving!

UhOh!!!I crashed my Ferrari!

Showing off her ride