National Day Celebrations

Oh wow, do they have some national spirit here!  The UAE flags (some as huge as 20+ stories) started coming out about a month before the December 2nd National Day for "Flag Day".  They were everywhere!  Olivia asks me all the time, even now, why they like their flag so much and why they still have all of the flags out!  It is a little silly.  Interesting, we have a friend here that actually went to ACS for high school.  He said he doesn't even remember celebrating National Day back then and that this is a recent  thing.  Mike even got a three day holiday for National Day!

 With our buddies, The McManemins, before school

Olivia and her friend, Francesca

 Olivia's class all decked out for the National Day celebrations at school

 They brought in a camel!

 They had all kinds of events for the kids, one was National Day manicures!

Naia's UAE flag manicure

 These are the crazy flags that are everywhere!

 These are the apartments right next door to our compound.

 Eliza's National Day Celebration at her preschool was the day after Olivia's

 Love her :-)

  Okay, this is too much.  So many cars had these made for their cars for National Day.  I couldn't stop taking photos of them.  Too funny!

Those three men are Sheik Zayed, the founder of the country, the current President Khalifa and the Crown Prince