A Bientot, Mark!

It's Mark and my last day together...tear. He is leaving for Abu Dhabi tomorrow morning for a friend's wedding and wont be back until after my departure home on Friday.

We started the day off with a home made breakfast of over-easy eggs with smoked salmon, toast and fruit. All energized up we were ready to tackle what was on the agenda for today: shopping! No, not for me :P for Mark. After spending summer after summer with just basketball shorts and tank tops, he needed a few things for the posh Abu Dhabi culture. We first went to pick up his tailored suit for the wedding and it looked great on him. We then went looking for a white dress shirt (check), khaki pants for his business class flight (check), smart casual shoes to go with his new khakis (check) and a black belt for his suit (check). It sounds like we were pretty efficient but that having to go from place to place took us awhile...a good five hours I'd say. It's amazing how tired you can get from just looking at clothes and trying them on. As a girl I am used to it (plus it's way more fun shopping for boys) but I could tell that Mark was pooped.
We made our way back and decided to get Thai for our last dinner together. Mark took us to this restaurant in the Bastille area that I had never noticed before. It's so modest on the outside (just a small sign and a simple door) but then you enter into a type of tropical paradise with bamboo trees and waterfalls and pink orchids everywhere. The restaurant was huge too - it must have been able to seat at least 200-300 people. After two appetizers and two main courses (not each haha) we were too full to order dessert. We went home to digest a bit and then took a night time walk along the river. We got ice cream and sat by the river for a bit and chatted about this and that and then went home for the night. Mark finished packing and I read a bit before falling asleep. 

xoxo

Alexis