I had come home from the office and got the good news that my kids had done brilliantly in their school exams. Since we weren’t going to India for our holidays, we thought we’d do something special for them.On Thursday, we went out shopping. We went to the Dubai Mall and bought some T-shirts and jeans for the boys. 
On Friday, we decided to go and have a splash so we visited the Wild Wadi Waterpark. It’s been around for sometime and is hugely popular with children and adults alike. Wild Wadi is one of the world’s most technically advanced water theme parks and is much better than the Mediterranean water parks I’ve been to. It’s seriously up there with Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, which I had visited two years ago. I found out that close to eight million litres of water are pumped through the park’s various tunnels, tubes, slides, caves and pools daily. The 24 rides are all interconnected so you can jump off one and jump straight onto another. We enjoyed the Jumeirah Sceirah, which is the highest and fastest free-fall water slide outside North America, a real fly by the seat of your pants experience! After a hectic day, we were too tired to have a heavy dinner, so we ate scoops of chocolate ice-cream. On Saturday, I brought out a classic DVD and we sat together and watched The Sound of Music. My kids and I sang the songs aloud and we laughed out loud. It was such a fun-filled weekend. One of my most memorable ones.
