Dubai Pics
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Arriving in Dubai!
The trip to Dubai was surprising good. We flew economy with British Airways. It was an afternoon flight and was about 6 hours long. Luckily we scored some exit row seats and that made the flight work for me 
We arrived at our hotel and it was gorgeous. We were somewhat surprised because of the 4 hotels we booked for the trip (we wanted to try a bunch of different hotels instead of staying at just one) this was the cheapest hotel. It was brand new and is called the Kempinski Hotel and was connected to the beautiful Emirates Mall (which is also home to Ski Dubai).
One of my biggest fears (definitely more an ignorant fear than a justified one) was whether I would like the food or not. The food was absolutely unbelievable. On our first night we ordered a pasta linguine and club sandwich and they were out of this world. The next morning we had room service breakfast and it too was dynamite.
While enjoying the food wasn’t going to be a problem we were faced with a food surprise. We happened to be in Dubai during Ramadan. Being a predominantly Muslim country Ramadan is taken very seriously. During Ramadan (which is a month long) Muslim fast and do not eat or drink anything during daylight hours. As a result all restaurants and all sources of food and drink are closed during the day. The only place you can find food is in your hotel and you have eat it in private. You can be fined if you are caught eating, drinking, smoking or chewing gum in public.
Anyhow back to our first few days in Dubai. We stayed at the Kempinski hotel from Oct 12th to Oct 14th. The first few days of the trip we took it easy. I was suffering from motion sickness/dizziness. I’m not sure what caused it but i wasn’t going to let it ruin my trip. One our first day I took it easy. Beth went shopping at the mall and I hung out at the pool. I have to say the pool was amazing. The water temperature was somehow just perfect and everything was so clean and spot on. Really impressive. Later that night we went SKIING in the desert. Obviously it wasn’t Mont Tremblant but it was pretty cool.
All in all our first few days in Dubai were great. Here are the pics
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