Hillary Biscay

9 March 10: Dubai in a Day

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by hillarybiscay in Blog | 2 Comments

Yesterday Maiki and I had an easy training day, with just a couple little runs, so we decided it was time for a Dubai field trip. We decided that we must see this place since we were just a couple of hours away by car. Here is what we found . . .

Camels, camels everywhere!

Traffic! Lots of it! Bumper-to-bumper craziness–my driving skills were definitely tested.

We stayed in the old section of town, by the port and the Gold Souk (seemingly a million and one little jewelery shops all packed in next to each other in narrow little alleys) . . . It was all quite a sight to behold.

Looking back at our photos, I see that Happy Snapper was pretty impressed by this dude . . . This is one of a series of several “fridge photos.”

Then of course we ventured over to the newer part of Dubai to see the much-hyped malls and fancy shmancy hotels.

This is the Mall of the Emirates, where there is the largest indoor ski situation in the world–not to mention every shop you could ever think of, times four (literally, in the case of Starbucks). We even found some of our American faves like Pinkberry fro yo and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf coffee (Sidenote: for some unknown reason this CBTL did not have soymilk! My excitement was quickly extinguished.)

and sledding too . . .There were all kinds of parents outside with us, taking pictures of their kids through the glass.

The much-hyped “seven-star” hotel. This was as close as we were allowed to get!

The Atlantis Hotel  . . . I liked the cieling:

Dubai was worth seeing, but we were quite happy to return to Al Ain and get out on the road and back into our favorite pool today!

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