Ok, so here is the summary of the Dubai trip over spring break. It was 4 days/3 nights and rather enjoyable not to have to pack and plan for a long trip.Day 1-Arrived in Dubai about noon and got to the hotel. The cabbie didn’t know where it was so that was interesting but he found it quite quickly. We, my friend and I, checked in and got lunch at the hotel restaurant before going out. We took a cab to the Creek area and then took the waterbuses to different places. We went to the Diera Covered Souqs and the gold market where I almost bought a necklace. It wasn’t the right size chain and it would have been difficult to replace so I didn’t get it. Then we took a cab to the Mall of the Emirates. (In the movies in New York City the people stand on the side of the road and raise their arm for the taxi to stop, well, it works!) We walked around there for a couple hours, the mall is HUGE, and then got dinner at Chilis and went home. My friend studied for her GRE and I read a book.
Day 2-My friend got up very early to go take the exam, I slept in and went to the pool. It was rather relaxing but it was sprinkling so I stayed underneath the shelter area so I wouldn’t get my knitting, eReader or iPod wet. My friend came back from the test successful and we ate leftovers for lunch and then went to IKEA at the Festival City Mall. My first trip to IKEA was both wonderful and frustrating. There are wonderful things that can be obtained there for reasonable prices that I can’t get it Doha and some of them came home with me. The frustrating part was that I wanted things that I couldn’t fit into my suitcase so they stayed at the store. (This kept my IKEA bill much lower than it would have been otherwise.) We walked around that mall for a while and then we took a cab back to the hotel. We found a shawarma place close to the hotel and we got shawarmas for 4 riyals each, about $1.25. Dinner cost me about $3 that night, I know I’m a big spender, but I budget for it.
Day 3-The liquid water park was at the Atlantis Hotel and was called Aquaventure. It was awesome. We got there earlier than we thought and so walked along the edge of the Palm Island and looked out at the ocean. There was a tour guide there that started talking to us and then gave me a lecture on how it is better to be married than single. We left ASAP. Ok, the water park was smaller than some I’ve been too but it was awesome. I don’t think I left my tube for the first 2 hours. They have ramps that you sit in your tube and get pulled up to the top of the ride so you don’t have to walk. The lazy river isn’t so lazy here, there are lazy parts as well as rapids. I did get cold there because of the wind and the sun hiding behind clouds. I also got a sunburn there too. We left about 6 pm and went back to the hotel and back to the shawarma place for dinner.
Day 4-We got moving slowly this morning but it was fine. We got dressed and packed and then went to breakfast. Afterward we went to the airport to store the bags so we could go to the Ski Dubai Snow Park. We got there, bought gloves (I felt very stupid), and went sledding and tubing. Think a solid water park. Oh, on the tubing hill they has an conveyer belt for you so you don’t have to walk up the hill! There is a person at the top who hold the tube so you can get it and then will spin you and get you going. It was fun until some local kids showed up and were very rude and everywhere. We left there about 11:30am and got lunch and went back to the airport. We got back to Doha about 5pm and were home by 6pm.Weather-In rained and haled in Dubai the first day, and we have sprinkles on day 2 and 3. Nothing in Dubai on the last day but when we were coming home from the airport it was a lightning storm, literally. Crazy weather all over Qatar and UAE that weekend.
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