Sunday, June 28, 2009

To Bidet Or Not To Bidet




Thought I would write about stuff that the girls are fascinated with here in Abu Dhabi. I’ll start with Ashli. It doesn’t surprise me, and it shouldn’t surprise any of those who know and love Ashli, that she is totally fascinated with the bathrooms here.
All bathrooms have either a bidet or a nozzle ( I don’t know the correct term yet). The nozzle has a long hose attached to it and you can use it the same way as a bidet to squirt clean water on areas that need to be cleaned after using the toilet. Please don’t make me explain further!!!!
Because all the bathrooms have either one of these options, they rarely have toilet paper. This is a nightmare for Ashli. Even as a tiny baby, she would have a hissy-fit if her bottom was the slightest bit damp. Luckily, a friend for-warned me of this and I stocked up on mini packs of tissue that I carry with me everywhere. She still gets all flustered when she realizes that there is no paper.
We have a bidet in one of the bathrooms in our hotel suite. Ashli insists that it is a bathtub for babies and no matter how often I tell her otherwise, she stands firm. I feel sorry for her future children. LOL!!!
Now the nozzle is a great source of amusement for her. Fortunately she hasn’t figured out that her own bathroom (in our future house) has its own nozzle. (We REALLY need to figure out how to turn it off). But, she did find and experiment with the one in the second bathroom in our suite. I was in the other room when I heard running water on the floor of the bathroom. I went in and found Ashli on the toilet with a stunned look on her face and water all over the floor in front of her. I asked her what happened and she recovered quickly. “I don’t know” was all I got. I asked how all the water got on the floor and she shrugged and said, “Somebody must have touched that thing.” The “thing” was the nozzle that I had given her strict instructions not to touch.
So far she has only touched it a few more times (I’m not looking forward to her being alone in her room with one) and I’m hoping that there are no dirty babies around her while we are still in the hotel!

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