Dubai!

We hurried home from work on a Wednesday to finish packing for our 930pm flight to Abu Dhabi. Heathrow was a ghost town and we had no troubles. We didn’t expect dinner to be served at midnight so it left us little time to sleep on the 7 hour overnight flight. We arrived at 830 am local time (430 am body clock time) on 2-3 hours of sleep and found a taxi service for the one hour drive to our Airbnb (hotel) in Dubai. Since we arrived so early, we couldn’t check in for an hour so we got some light lunch at the hotel. We got to check in at noon and immediately went to sleep. A one hour planned nap turned into 3.5 hours but we still had time to see the town. Our Airbnb is a hotel residence with an amazing balcony view of the Burj Khalifa. We had a 15 minute walk to the Dubai Mall (first or second largest mall in the world) where the kids begged to go ice skating and we found an old favorite restaurant from back home. After some window shopping, we made our way to see the Dubai Fountain show (like the Bellagio fountains in Vegas). The weather is amazing with full sun and a high in the mid 80s (a relief from rain and 40s for the last 4 months). We finally sat down for food and had a delicious meal at the Social House. We walked around the base of the Burj Khalifa before getting some groceries on the way home. Dubai is so clean and beautiful and tall buildings abound. Kids are wondering where the desert is. Back at home, we went up to the rooftop infinity pool (which just closed, much to the kids disappointment) before showers and tucking in to bed. Big day planned tomorrow so hoping our internal clocks can reset quickly. So strange to be using air con! Czytaj więcej