Jumeriah Beach Again

Since we bought new goggles, new beach shorts and new floats, we decided that we most certainly have to go to the beach AGAIN!:)

Alas when we reached the beach... THERE WERE NO UMBRELLAS AVAILABLE FOR RENT!

Can die lor.. I sit there wiht the cap as my only shade.. even my picnic mat feels HOT TO TOUCH after 5 minutes under the mid day sun!

I quickly tok out my UV protection Umbrella.. BUT only can protect me...


I was seated there and then when there was finally a free umbrella, the umbrella man gave it to the arabic family that came AFTER US.. just because they had a little boy with them.. but hell, their boy came in a pram and was in shade lor.. me was in the sun lor.. I think I need the umbrella more lor! Hahaha.. but ok lah.. granted the little boy is very small.. only 2 years old or so I think.. give them priority lor...

I was quite pissed though that the father actually started smoking in front of his son.. cannot let the son come under the sun can let him smell second hand smoke that will rot his lungs.. dunno wat logic he has in his warped mind...

Thank goodness, after about 10 min, another family left, I quickly cheong to set up my mats under the shade.. wah.. SHIOK to hide under the cool umbrella

Meanwhile.. Ace and Max went out to the beach and started having fun... while I just enjoy the breeze under the shade..

Suddenly, I heard someone shout, "HOLD ON TO THE BOARD!" At once I looked up and see what happened cos that was obviously Max lor...

Turned out that at the far end where the rocks are, there are actually fishes, corals and sea porcupines (sea urchins)! So Max brought Ace there on the board.. but because Ace was very frightened when he saw the prickly sea porcupines, (which he knows from learning in school are poisonous) he started to wobble and almost lost his grip on the board...

Well, the good thing is that they managed to see also some of the blue fishes.. you know.. like the fish named Dory in Finding Nemo?

Time for a family photo:)

Did you see the couple on the left side of the picture? The half naked one is the idiotic father who smoked in front of his young child. They had wanted to bring their child swimming but the little one cried the moment he touched water and so the mother had to carry him while standing in the sea...

Then Max and Ace decided to play frisbee for a while:)

Me and Max:)

I remember F told me how the beach near her place always has a row of indian workers sitting there to watch free show... cos the ladies on the beach were all in bikinis...  saw these indian workers seated on the breakwater and watching from afar...

At least they watching from afar lor...

We saw a group of Arabic young men who walked around and took photo using their phones... SO THEY ARE WORSE! I found out later it is illegal to take photo of any woman in Dubai without her permission.. they could have been arrested lor.. 

I decided to go waddle in the sea for a while lah.. saw this green lump.. dunno wat is it.. but took picture cos very fascinated.. reminds me of a cartoon I watched with Ace when Ace was much younger called 宇宙小毛球..

Then hor, Max asked me if I wanted to go and see the corals. I figured since Ace has the board, I can use the board and float over there and float back lah, doesnt seem like very far mah.. and if Ace can do it, I can do it for sure right?

WRONG!

It was one of the most horrifying experiences of my life!

Firstly, you know it is the sea right.. so there is a current.. and I havent been swimming for maybe 20 years.. so I have forgotten how exactly to even kick using the board.. so no matter how I kick, I felt like I was not moving or if not, I felt like I was moving furthur and furthur away from my target... Max was initially swimming alongside me and as he got furthur away, I will start to feel very frightened.... It did not help that I was using Ace's very small KIDS SIZED goggles tat limited my vision considerably.. the world is just a blur... and in the panicky state where I tried to calm myself down, the only sense I could feel was just my GUT FEEL!

I held on to the board for my dear life!  And thank god Max was there to sometimes pull me along.... I kicked and kicked and held on hard to the board and instead of moving forward, I felt like I was moving backwards!

Or if not, as I tried to move towards Max, I felt like I was actually floating furthur away, which made me even more panicky.. after alot of hard work.. finally arrived at the place where I was supposed to look at the amazing sea creatures.. saw a coral that looked like a brain.. (Big deal, saw this in aquarium liao...) saw some sea urchines (big deal, also saw those in aquarium liao), saw some silver fishes which I have already seen as they also swim towards the shallow water in schools... where is DORY? KNN, I guess I was just unlucky.. come this far, after so much struggle, that was all I saw...

I decided hor.. been there, done that, time to go back to the shore...

ONce and again, I kicked hard but felt myself moving backwards... Max kept laughing at me and saying that I was even more of a trouble than Ace. 

And then came the epic part... Max told me "OK lah, reach the part where your legs can touch the ground liao.." This is my husband talking.. and I would naturally trust him right? So I trusted him and put my legs down and let go of the board...

WAH LAU EH, MAX FORGOT I AM SHORTER THAN HIM LOR! MY LEGS CANNOT TOUCH THE GROUND!!!!

So into the water I went... And at that moment, I remembered this video I watched about how children are taught to float till they are rescued... and I was about to roll over and float like what I saw the baby did in the video when I realized that my body was floating and I could reach out for my float again...

By the time I was back on shore, I was exhausted.. my legs and arms ached for the whole night that night lor...

Well, at least, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT! FOR SURE!

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