Running for the bus

Hi Everyone

Oh bus number 11, you have been oh so good to us. Bus 11 takes us every where we really need to go. Two different malls, Ben's school, my new school, and a fish market (that we have never been to), and all for AED 1 (.27 cents). Ben's front tire on his bike has been flat for over a week now so we have been riding the bus a lot. This past weekend we had a basketball tournament that Ben and I were site mangers for. Saturday morning we were walking to the bus and it was at a red light, we tried to get on it there but the driver said we had to go down to the next stop, a good distance away. So we start running and the bus waited there for us, which was nice, I was very much out of breath, Ben looked like he just walked, pshh runner.

Yesterday I had to go to the mall to get some stuff and again I saw the bus at a red light, so I started running toward the stop. The bus passed me and I tried to get his attention to tell him I was running for him! I saw the bus pull over and wait a little, then I saw him start pulling away, and I was thinking NOOOOO. But then he stopped just as I got to the stop and let me in, he had a big grin on his face and was laughing. Thanks again bus 11 driver, you are the best.

Soon we will have a vehicle though. Ben bought an a Trooper and is in the process of getting it. On Monday he went with the owner to go switch the insurance, when you do that you have to get it inspected. Ben knew it needed new tires (spelled tyers here) but they wouldn't pass inspection without them. Which ended up being okay because the owner is now going to split the cost with Ben. We also found out you have to get it inspected once a year and that is where you learn how many tickets you got over the year. At almost every intersection and on many highways they have cameras and you don't find out if you got a ticket until you get the car inspected. HA so you might be very happy with none, or very unhappy like one teacher who had AED 13,000 ($3,527!) worth of tickets at the end of the year. Lets hope we don't get any!