STEPS
05-15-2013, 08:17 PM
Hi, All
Our first day here we slept most of the day..after pulling an all night-er on the plane. (May 12th)
Yesterday, after working out we visited the Dubai Mall: it is overwhelming with hundreds of high end stores of every kind (Tiffany's, Bvlgari, Eve St. Laurent, Gucci, Armani etc) all on three levels. When we arrived at the mall there was a valet parking: it was lined up with Lamborghini's', Ferrari's, Porsche's etc.
The mall even had an ice skating rink ..... it was stunning to see all of these children ice skating at the mall where they have an average temperature of 85 degrees all year long: then they have a stunning water fall as well.
The mall is extremely touristy oriented: we observed one memorable moment .... four Arabic men (dressed in their sparkly white Keffiyeh and thawb) drinking their coffee sitting ..... at the Starbuck's outside patio. What a comical scene...... to bad we didn't have our camera.
Afterwards we had a private tour of Dubai in a BMW. Come to find out our driver Sebastian Babu's wife is BFing
http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gif.....so we (my wife) is going to have a consult upon our return visit the end of the month. http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gifhttp://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gifhttp://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gif Hurrah...Thank you Jesus....http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo5.gif
We learned all about Dubai on our tour: 80% of the monies that is generated is from tourism. The vibrant city is rich in financial investment (fortune 500 companies), business banking, trading and retail. It has a high scale quality of life with a passion for service in excellence. The opportunities for new businesses is open to everyone.
The flexible infra-structure of finance is mirror image to its unique beauty in the architecture like no where else in the world. The five American and the five Russian Architects are responsible for have creating and developing the cutting edge of it's sky line. It is breath taking and the building is still going on.
We visited the Dubai Museum:The first settlers were the Arab Bedouins who cultivated this land, protected their their city, did pearl fishing/diving and brought their specialty trades to build up the vibrant city ..... before the discovery of oil. I would like to mention that petrol or fuel is only $2/gallon here. The museum certainly makes on appreciate the culture here.
The Jumeira Marina is one of the magnificent regions where most of the Americans reside who are extremely wealthy. There are a variety of river boats to cruise for the evening for dinner. It is a landmark to see.
It is known for it's wealth of sports and vacation for everyone in the family.... if one can afford it.
We have no idea what we will do today before we zip off to Perth and Steve has come down with a sore throat.
We have left for western Austrailia and arrived on May 14th. will follow up latter
Until later. God bless.
Trezi A. Luty MS. RD. CDN. IBCLC. RLC. and Steve Luty Retired
Our first day here we slept most of the day..after pulling an all night-er on the plane. (May 12th)
Yesterday, after working out we visited the Dubai Mall: it is overwhelming with hundreds of high end stores of every kind (Tiffany's, Bvlgari, Eve St. Laurent, Gucci, Armani etc) all on three levels. When we arrived at the mall there was a valet parking: it was lined up with Lamborghini's', Ferrari's, Porsche's etc.
The mall even had an ice skating rink ..... it was stunning to see all of these children ice skating at the mall where they have an average temperature of 85 degrees all year long: then they have a stunning water fall as well.
The mall is extremely touristy oriented: we observed one memorable moment .... four Arabic men (dressed in their sparkly white Keffiyeh and thawb) drinking their coffee sitting ..... at the Starbuck's outside patio. What a comical scene...... to bad we didn't have our camera.
Afterwards we had a private tour of Dubai in a BMW. Come to find out our driver Sebastian Babu's wife is BFing
http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gif.....so we (my wife) is going to have a consult upon our return visit the end of the month. http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gifhttp://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gifhttp://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo69.gif Hurrah...Thank you Jesus....http://mail.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo5.gif
We learned all about Dubai on our tour: 80% of the monies that is generated is from tourism. The vibrant city is rich in financial investment (fortune 500 companies), business banking, trading and retail. It has a high scale quality of life with a passion for service in excellence. The opportunities for new businesses is open to everyone.
The flexible infra-structure of finance is mirror image to its unique beauty in the architecture like no where else in the world. The five American and the five Russian Architects are responsible for have creating and developing the cutting edge of it's sky line. It is breath taking and the building is still going on.
We visited the Dubai Museum:The first settlers were the Arab Bedouins who cultivated this land, protected their their city, did pearl fishing/diving and brought their specialty trades to build up the vibrant city ..... before the discovery of oil. I would like to mention that petrol or fuel is only $2/gallon here. The museum certainly makes on appreciate the culture here.
The Jumeira Marina is one of the magnificent regions where most of the Americans reside who are extremely wealthy. There are a variety of river boats to cruise for the evening for dinner. It is a landmark to see.
It is known for it's wealth of sports and vacation for everyone in the family.... if one can afford it.
We have no idea what we will do today before we zip off to Perth and Steve has come down with a sore throat.
We have left for western Austrailia and arrived on May 14th. will follow up latter
Until later. God bless.
Trezi A. Luty MS. RD. CDN. IBCLC. RLC. and Steve Luty Retired