Emma's weekend

On Wednesday afternoon, Emma was invited for a "get together" at one of her classmates's house.  After calling the nanny for confirmation of the time and date of the event, we went drive her to her friend's house.  Worth knew the street so that made navigation easier.  We werent't quite sure exactely which house it was, as the map had no house number.  We eventually found the house using a football /soccer field across the street as a landmark.  Well, the house per se really was not what we would call a house.  Looked more like a palace, protected from the street by 10 feet walls covered in white marble, with the house decked similarily!  The whole compound was made up of probably 6 to 8 huge houses, each with a squarefootage of 6000 sq ft, this is just an estimate as we are not sure of that and never were invited inside the house!
Emma was invited for the evening, along a bunch of other children, all cousins of some sorts.  They played outside, inside, swam in the underground pool... got a tour of the house, with Emma telling us that there is a disco at the pool and in another room.  With her new birthday gift cell phone, Emma called us later in the evening, to ask if she could sleep ove, r which she did.  She says that the little girls' bedroom is bigger than our villa here (and our house in Copper Mill)!  There is even a kitchen and a fridge inside her bedroom!  Now, what may look huge in the eyes of a 9 year old may not truly be bigger than our villa...but after seeing the outside of the house, it would not surprise me!
Yesterday, after coming back home, she was invited to another little girl's house for a sleepover.  They ended up going to the girl's grandmother's farm where they went camel back riding! 
At least one of the family is living the life!