Tag: Trip Journal
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Trip Journal: Snow Skiing in Dubai
Today we went skiing in the desert. Well, sort of. Actually, we went skiing in the mall. We arrived at the Mall of the Emirates near the Hotel Kempinski and walked through a hotel cafe on the the way to Ski Dubai. We caught a glimpse of the slope from the restaurant: Even though I…
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Trip Journal: Our Second Full Day in Dubai
Last night I stayed up with our hostess drinking champagne, eating cookies, watching Modern Family and chatting until 2:30 when our oldest woke up and had trouble getting back to sleep. We made him toast with Nutella and then decided to call it a night. This morning I was expecting to pay the price of…
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Trip Journal: Our First full day in Dubai
Arriving in Dubai was simple and amazingly hassle-free. The airport was spacious and going through passport control, collecting our luggage and getting on our way was amazingly simple. I expected to see people covered in abayas (women) and dishdashas (men) everywhere, but there were many more people dressed as we were. R, our friend for…
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Trip Journal: Dubai- The plane facts
I’ve already shared a bit about why we are going to Dubai and what the week was like getting ready. In case you are interested, I thought I’d share a bit about our flight. (I’ve got lots of free time to write and have already watched two movies, so why not?!) We got to the…
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Trip Journal: Traveling to Dubai
I am flying to Dubai. Can you believe that? I can barely believe it myself! I am on an airplane over Spain, my daughter (in her Hello Kitty slippers) and son wiggling and mostly asleep on one side of me, an aisle, my husband, other son and mother-in-law asleep on the other side of me.…