Birthday Bash

Coopers Pub at the Park Rotana

Last night's birthday bash was a roaring success!  A goodly number of folks popped into thre Coopers Pub at the Park Rotana for a few bevvies, and I didn't pay for a thing all night.  Happy Birthday to me.  Here are a few pics to fill you in on the evening, chronologically:

Gorgeous sunsets here. It's all the dust in the sky.

Oh, yu know... just an interesting 'taken from the cab' kinda pic.

A city intersection in the early evening.  Still pretty hot, so not a hell of a lot of people wandering the streets.  Also, any pedestrain is taking their lives in their hands in this city... the drivers are MENTAL!!!

City Mosque Below Light Pole, by John Laing

Heading for one of the underpasses we go through on the way to work every day.

These two cool buildings are awesome!  They have an exoskeleton that looks as if it might open and close in reaction to the position of the sun.  Tiff and Kosta and I can't quite work it out.  But they're cool buildings, man!  This is an evening shot.  I'll try and get a good daytime shot so that you can see the exoskeleton more clearly.  It's pretty impressive architecture.

Beer number one!!!

The first wave of merry revellers.  Another five or so mid-week madness beer lovers turned up later: L to R: Richard, Tim, Tiff behind, Jeremy, Chris, Mark, Aesha, Mel, Rob and yours truly.

A little later in the night... several pints donw.  Jeremy yours truly and Jesse Crazy-eyes.

Off the pints and into the... Coopers!!  Yes, they sell Coopers at Coopers, but I don't think the two are related in any way.  I shall endeavour to find out.  Yours truly, Mark and Chris.

Part of the second wave of revellers.  Mel, Rob, yours truly, Peter, Tim and Sarah.

Ahhhhhhh, the terrible trio.  My besties in AD, Tiff and Kosta, and yours truly of course.

I don't know what Mel was on about, but the finger was wagging about something!!

Jeremy, who inhabits the same apartment building as me, and is my office next door neighbour at work.

Now, this is the Coopers Pub bar.  For some ridiculous reason, it won't publish to the blog in any form other than upside down.  So, turn your head over and look.  Sorry about that.  I tried to rotate it several times, but to no avail.

Very nice glass work windows in teh place.  It's quite ritzy, really.  For a pub, that is.

Nice one of Kosta and Tiff.

Ummm... art shot?

Through the taxi window.  Fascinating, really....

Ummm, another art shot?

I really quite like this one.  It has a kooky, sci-fi, horror film kinda je ne sais quoi about it.  Kosta and Tiff don't like it.  But, hey, it's MY blog.  MINE!!!