White & Gold Party

Friday the 2nd was sadly our last day with our guests. We figured it would be nice to get one last good beach day in so headed to the Marina and JBR Walk beach first thing. Brett, Scott, and Jess didn't want to leave because they wanted to soak up as much sun as possible, so around noon Jared and I left them on the beach to grab some lunch and then after we ate we picked them up and all headed home to shower. Our friend Elizabeth who lives in an amazing apartment right on the beach in Jumeirah happened to be having one of her famous color-themed parties that night, so we figured it would be a fun thing to do for the last night. The party was "White & Gold" themed and so (obviously) it was a prerequisite to wear white and/or gold or both. I was excited because for Elizabeth's last themed party in the fall (The Yellow Party), I was insanely hungover and couldn't enjoy myself at all. After we all got cleaned up from the beach we headed to the Dubai Mall to pick up our 'costumes'. H&M has quickly become my goto clothing store here (mostly because I can't really afford to shop anywhere else at the mall as 90% are couture designer stores), so we promptly headed to H&M where I found a white dress and then got carried away with the gold accessories. We grilled at home for our last dinner and after all the suitcases were packed and ready to go, we headed to the party.

The White & Gold Twins. Scott literally didn't take off the sunglasses alllll night. I have no idea how he could see anything on the dark strobe lit roof. I guess alcohol helps.

Me & Jared

Me & Elizabeth (the hostess)

Me with Brett and Scott. Please notice how bright red they both were... I think Brett might have won the tan competition... Scott definitely won the burn one. His chest and back were pink pink pink. It can't have been a comfortable plane ride home.

Scott and his wing-man (our good friend) Ruch

The last group photo.... Brett doesn't in fact have Jess in a head lock, but he's trying to cover up her crazy sunburn. This is Jess's 'after' picture.

On Saturday morning at 5:45 we dropped them off at the airport. What an amazing week we had and we were very sad to see them go.... Hopefully they all had as much fun as we did hosting. Until next year....