Kisha had a room at the London Crowne in Dubai, so I put that information in Cassie's GPS and discovered that there are 3 London Crowne's in Dubai. OK, so which one do we choose? Kisha said she was at the one on Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed St., but that wasn't an option. So I just chose one. Well, it ended up being the wrong one, but we didn't figure that out until we got to room 410. We rang the doorbell and Cassie said "Honey, we're home!" and waited for her to answer. We got a huge surprise when a short man answered the door! He just stared up at us and we stared down at him. It took our brains a while to figure out that Kisha wasn't in the room. Once we did figure it out, maybe a couple of seconds later (seemed like 5 minutes), we apologized and left the poor man alone. We couldn't stop laughing! Once we settled down we asked for directions at the desk. When we got to the second hotel I decided to call Kisha and let her know that we had arrived. I began describing the lobby I was in just to make sure it was the right one. She couldn't remember what the lobby looked like so she headed downstairs. I watied, and waited, but no one came out of the elevator! So once again we were at the wrong hotel. At least we didn't go up to room 410 this time! OK forget this business of asking for directions. I put Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed St. into the GPS and decided we could figure it out from there. The GPS got us to the street and all we had to do was look for the hotel. Surprisingly it was quite easy to find! We get in the elevator ready to go up to the 4th floor, but there is no 4 button, only up to 3. We burst out laughing and I think, oh no here we go again! We decided to push 3 and see what happens. When the elevator opens we see a sign that says 4th floor! Only in the UAE will 3 take you to the 4th floor!! Crazy! But we did find Kisha. What a night. We left Al-Ain at 10pm and arrived at the hotel a little before 1am. It's only takes a little over an hour to get from Al-Ain to Dubai. Finding the hotel was the issue. So needless to say we were exhausted when we got there.
We got up the next morning, very late mind you, (National Day) and headed to the Dubai Mall for lunch. That was the easiest thing to find. After lunch we went to the Dubai Museum. It's a lot bigger than it looks from the outside. When we pulled up I thought that it was going to be a pretty boring museum, but it was really interesting. There were exhibits from way back in BC when Dubai began. Pretty interesting to see their history. A lot has changed. We saw some houses and boats and skeletons of people that lived a long time ago. Pretty neat.
After the museum we drove around for a bit more and then went to the Outlet Mall. Kisha had heard there were some big sales going on there. I wasn't too impressed. We shopped for a bit and then headed back to the hotel to get ready for our dinner cruise on the creek.
The cruise was wonderful. It was so peaceful. The food wasn't all that great, but it was a good night. The weather was fabulous, we saw some neat boats, some buildings deocrated for National Day, and a little magic show on the boat. A very nice and relaxing night!
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| Happy 39th Birthday to the UAE |
Friday began with a trip to the InterCon (our favorite hotel:) for breakfast. We had a great breakfast, we knew we would, and then headed to Global Village. Global Village is located in Dubailand (an amusement park) and has vendors from all different countries selling souveniors. I figured I could get my Christmas shopping done. We got to Global Village and couldn't figure out how to get to the parking. Cassie eventually drove the wrong way on a one way street (good thing it was Friday and there was no traffic), but we got to the parking place only to discover that they didn't open until 4pm:( Bummer. We really wanted to go there. So we drove around some more trying to find something to do. As we were driving we saw some camels out in the desert and we just had to stop to take some pictures. We decided to check out the Dolphinarium. We couldn't find that either. It wasn't in the GPS and the thing with maps here is they like to put things on them that they're building. Not a good idea. So that's what we think was the case with the Dolphinarium since we couldn't find it or any signs for it. We did go over the Floating Bridge though. That was pretty weird. The Floating Bridge is exactly what the name says; it floats on the water. Kind of scary, but cool at the same time. At this point Cassie decided that she wanted a milkshake from Hardees and the nearest one was in Sharjah (another emirate) so we took a drive to Sharjah. Yeah! Now I've been to 3 of the 7 emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah), I just have to visit Ajman, Fujeriah, Ras Al Khamin (RAK), and Umm Al Qaimm. Well I guess I should go back to Sharjah since all I saw was the Hardees because we needed to get Kisha back to the bus station.
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| Camels seen from the road |
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