Our Thursday Adventure

ardapyan (52)in #philippines • 7 years ago (edited)

Good day everyone.

It was lovely afternoon last Thursday when we went for a stroll to Abu Dhabi Street Fest. I was excited when I saw this ad on the net and immediately called my wife that we can go there after her work shift. I am on local leave for a month and I am assigned to take care of our son to save a month’s nanny fee. We waited for my wife at her work and we headed directedly to the street fest.

Upon entering, we were greeted with an open stage where you can comfortably sit at the bean bags they provided while watching the bands perform.

In here the fun started. Picture taking. Lol. First stop, with a flag of UAE. Me, my son and wife.

Walking further, we can smell the food that is being served from the food carts. The first cart is selling potato in sticks. The second is selling burgers. Actually, most of the food carts sell burgers, another one is Indian cuisine. I was expecting of Filipino street food to be available but there wasn’t any. Hahaha!

Taking a right turn would direct you to this man selling toys and bubbles for kids. Luckily my son didn’t ask us to buy it. He enjoyed watching colorful carts and rides and didn't notice the man who was trying to tempt him by blowing some bubbles on the air. Also, there is a tent in the street fest provided for the prayer room. This is for males only. Our Muslim brothers and sisters have a separate prayer room for men and women.

With us were my cousin and her boyfriend who takes his rest day every week at our flat. He is assigned 4 hours from Abu Dhabi where my cousin is working. Sometimes, he takes care of our son on Saturdays if we are at work. This is one of few occasions that they came with us together. Usually, my cousin's boyfriend is the one who comes with us on our rest days’ activities because she only got 2 days offs a month.

, we decided to go out of the food fest area and went to the adjacent family park for a walk but before that my wife @jovema took us a picture first because we forgot to snap one at the entrance. This is one of the entrances and exits of the street fest by the way.

The 2 lovebirds goofing around. It reminds me of me and my wife when we were still young. Haha!!

Beautiful bridge in an abandoned water park. Still, the place is nice.

It was already dark that we decided to go. It was really nice if we could buy food from the street fest, sit on the tables the management provided, eat under the night sky, listening to the groove but foods there are expensive. A burger for 35DHS (10USD)each so we ended up in Pizza Hut to fill our roaring tummies. We ordered a family meal good for 4 and add a trio platter for 99DHS (27 USD.