We happened to be up early the morning the Queen Victoria eased into one of Dubai's modern container ports and were particularly lucky to catch this photo of the sun rising and a plane landing. Good morning Dubai.
The United Arab Emirates is the result of 6 or 7 Sultan heads of indivisual city states called Emirates, agreeing in the 70's (I think) to form one UAE country. It has been a remarkable success and is a place we would like to return to some day and we recommend it highly for anyone looking for a new and interesting place to visit. They claim that only Shanghai might have more construction cranes in use than they do. An effort to count the cranes failed when we reached 30.
We were getting hungry at the end of our tour of Dubai and we wanted to see the ski resort inside the Mall of the Emirates so we were really lucky when we walked into a nice restaurant and unexpectadly were taken to a table that looked out over the entire resort. 
Dubai has the neatest Museum depicting typical Arabian living and Barry took the opportunity to discuss the US Democrat Primary with this guy who has Obama handicapped as a 5-3 shot to beat Clinton.
While walking through the Mall of the Emirates in awe of the number and variety of stores, Phyllis met her new best friend, Mohammed (no kidding!) but we'll let her show you "The rest of the story!" as Paul Harvey would say.
While walking through the Mall of the Emirates in awe of the number and variety of stores, Phyllis met her new best friend, Mohammed (no kidding!) but we'll let her show you "The rest of the story!" as Paul Harvey would say.
3 comments:
OK now you've done it! Dubai is one of the places I would really like to visit. So if you are serious about returning some day I would be interested. I am not sure about staying at that hotel, but who knows. Keep up the good work! How many more days do you have? L&Knucdz
We are eagerly looking forward to our trip to Dubai with you and the Ulrich's. Kathryn would love to shack up with Larry and Kathy and live the high life...
And dad, I bet if you hit a golfball off that same platform you could find the water!
Joe
And most think things in Texas are big!
I've read so much about Dubai ... would love to see it some day!
Keep up the good work with the blog!
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