After our mid day break, we caught a cab to the Mall of the Emirates. What a crazy place that is – it is enormous! We ate lunch at the St. Moritz Café – at the end of Ski Dubai and watched people catch the lift and children get pulled along on sleds. We went to the Ski Pro shop, but didn’t find anything we wanted to bring back with us… we wandered around the mall for a couple of hours, I was surprised by the Marble Slab – but didn’t get any ice cream, we wanted to watch the sunset from the bar that overlooks the big sailboat hotel… so we headed to the taxi stand…. OMG! There is a story and a half in the wait for the taxi, but long line story short – we met a nice girl who had come over on a cargo plane with Shiek somethingorother’s 32 yearlings that he had purchased in Kentucky and she was going back to the states today… I’ll leave the cool cars to Stephen to describe…. It took an hour to get a cab, so we watched the sunset in line, but then we got to the parkign area for the hotel – headed off in the wrong direction (again) to find the bar… but I think that was just so we could give the people at the bar for sunset time to leave… Once we got headed in the right direction, we located the bar and had excellent seats to watch the colorful lights illuminate the sail of the sailboat hotel. Stephen enjoyed a mojito, and I had a non-alcoholic passionfruit, cranberry, raspberry drink – sort of an adult hawaiian punch… a little tart, but tasty still. We caught a cab ride back to the bastakhia area and came back to the hotel room and fell asleep – again, early, but I think we are almost adjusted…
We got up at 7:30 this morning, and it didn’t feel like it was 11:30 at night. So, off we go – gotta check-out of the hotel, find a place to store our suitcases while we visit the Dubai Museum and then catch a cab back to Abu Dhabi.
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