Arabian Adventures

It's day 2 in Dubai and already so much has happened! I arrived in Dubai yesterday morning, the plane was amazing, I've never seen anything like it. I had the choice of hundreds of films to watch, all the latest albums, games to play - plus a plane tracker so I could follow our plane on the map. I think the blokes sitting next to me thought I was a spack because I couldnt work out how to use the TV (it was touch screen) and I couldn't work out where to plug in my headphones (I plugged them into the electric razor socket until the man next to me told me they had to be in the arm rest...which explained why my sound wasnt workin!) It took me a good 10minutes trying to work out why my light wouldn't switch off when I twisted it, until the man next to me pointed to the light switch. Other than that, everything was lovely. 

Alex met me at the airport, we chilled out a bit then did a bit of siteseeing. Alex, Josh and I went for a drive through Dubai city centre and took a look at the Burj Kalifa- the tallest building in the world. We went to the worlds biggest shopping mall, which had the worlds biggest indoor fish tank. It was incredible, there were scuba divers in the fish tank and everything!

Today Josh drove Alex and I to the Mirdiff shopping mall in Dubai where we did this thing called 'IFly' which was an indoor sky diving simulator. It was so much fun, but really scary! Josh took loads of photo's so I'll upload them when I can.

This afternoon, Alex and I went to desert for a 'desert safari'. We went Dune Bashing, which is by far the best thing in the world! It was so much fun, I cant even describe how good it was, but if you ever get the chance to do it then you should! After the dune bashing, we rode a camel and then went sand boarding down the dunes. That was really good too!

As the sun was setting, we joined the party where there were belly dancers, and other entertainment. We tried on an Abaya, which is the traditional arabic dress for ladies. I'll be putting up the pictures soon! They are pretty funny! I got a traditional henna pattern on my foot, and we then had a BBQ buffet thing for dinner. I got bitten by an ant, which I was moaning about until Alex got crawled on by a HUGE creepy crawly. An arabic looking man on the table next to us shouted "Oh hell no..." when he saw the bug, which made us panic! He picked up a shoe and smooshed the insect lol. Then when we asked what it was, he had no idea, he just 'didn't like the look of it'. It was so funny. Today has been the best day ever!