Sunday, May 31, 2009

What is our address?

(That is our RAV4 on the right)

This is a tricky question because we don't exactly have one. I know that sounds crazy but everything over here is talked about in terms of land marks. So if I were to tell you were I live, I would say we live City Center by the HSBC roundabout, turn into the KFC parking lot on Khalifa street, follow the road around, turn left, and we are #4.

Richard made this map to our place when we just moved in and were having things delivered all of the time. He just printed out a bunch of copies and we have then on hand, it has proven quite helpful! Cute Richard for doing that, I love that guy.

So, deducing from this level of organization, you can probably guess that they don't have a great mail system either. If we had to receive something via mail, then we would use Richards work address, which is on the University campus and much more reliable.

Al Ain City
Abu Dhabi Emirate
United Arab Emirates
P.O. Box 15551


So, if you have felt the urge to send us packages full of goodies, don't. For the most part, it's too expensive to send even something small around the world. Rather, save your money and take us out to dinner the next time we see you. :) However, I will say that Mark recently received a card from Utah via snail mail! It took 4 first class stamps and about 3 weeks, I was happily suprized that it made it!

This post inspired by Rachel. Hi Rache!

2 comments:

Barb said...

A whole different world!

Unknown said...

Hi Cat! I love the crazy directions, and I will definitely take you and Richard to dinner when I see you next instead of sending a package! That sounds tricky!