Where's Edgar?

September 27-29, 2007
On Thursday night Liza, Manna, Marika and I went to the Ibn Batuta Mall. It is a huge mall with a world theme. The mall is set up into different sections: China, India, Persia, Egypt, Tunisia, and Andalusia. Each section has stores from that place as well as a traditional display. For example: China had a life-size ship. It was huge and so cool! You could walk through this one area of the boat and it had a video showing different types of underwater life.

We only made it through half of the mall before it was time to close so we have to go back another day in order to see the other half. Before we started walking through the mall we had supper at Tony Romas. The food was pretty similar to back home. Marika and I haven't gone out much to eat yet. Sometime we want to go to Applebees because I have never been there.

This weekend we went on a double-decker bus tour of Dubai. Marika, Manna, Sarah and I went together.


It was so great! We were able to see where various stores and tourist stops were. It helped us figure out where we are in the general area of Dubai. It helped us to get out and see the city for cheap. The whole tour included: 48 hour bus access (you can hop on or hop off at any stop), a free boat ride, free entrance to the tourist stops, and some coupons. The total cost was 175 AED but Marika bartered him down to 160 AED. The bus had two routes-- the red and the blue route. The red route went through the city and the blue route went to various hotels and to the beach. Marika and I burned so I finally have a tan. We hopped off at The Old Souk, The Gold Souk, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Sheihk Saeed Al Maktoum House, and The Dubai Museum. Throughout the year we are going to go to the stops we did not go to such as Wafi City, Burjuman, Karama, Jumeirah Mosque, Jumeirah Beach, and the Mercato Mall. We took so many pictures (I will put them up later). Dubai is so gorgeous. Pictures do not even start to show the whole picture. You have to come here for yourself. Also, the construction is INSANE!!! There are cranes and new buildings being built everywhere. When they say this place is developing they are not joking. I can't wait to see more of this place.