Sunday, October 01, 2006

Drinking in Dubai!

Well the heading is a bit deceiving it wasn't all drinking in Dubai. Kerrie my sister was stopping over on her way back to Australia after spending 2 fabulous years in France. So I had to take a trip down there to catch up with her since it had been over 12 months since we had seen each other. We both arrived late on Wednesday night and then after stocking up at Duty free headed to the Hotel. Unfortunately it is the holy month of Ramadan at the moment so we couldn't eat and drink in public but we did enough of that at the hotel :) Kerrie had never been to a Middle Eastern country before so it was really good to be able to show her the crazy world I have been living in. Although Dubai isn't really as crazy as Kuwait she still got to experience and see some of the differences we have here. Thursday we took a drive around and checked out the place. Visited some popular resorts and the gold market. It was great to just catch up and be a bit silly together just like normal....
Now the drinking part okay.....We kind of stocked up a little to much so when Kerrie left on Friday morning I still had some time in Dubai on my own....What is one to do but to drink the left overs so a bottle of gin later I was a mess hahahaha. Don't think I have ever drunk that much on my own before didn't know I could be so amusing HAHAHAHA.
Any way the pics from our little catch up in Dubai are below and no I wasn't really drunk in the end ones I was just messing about however thats pretty much how I looked Friday hahahahaha......
You can't come to the Middle East and not take a photo of a mosque

Dubai, big buildings, palm trees and sun :)

An Ali Sunset

Huh you want me to sober up pfft!

A 7 star hotel yes 7 ! Dunno what you get for that but it better be good!

Kezz on Snow Patrol!

A bit of Arabic architecture

Sun set at one of the resorts in Dubai

Right so the light comes on when?

Out side the Gold Market

I don't know which is shinier the gold or Kezz's head :)

The gold Souq

Down an ally of the Gold Souq (Kerrie is that your future husband?)

A cheap Sharwama shop (Sharwama is kind of like a kebab)


Kerrie was impressed with the Arabic Fashions LOL


The little boat that gets you across the creek


A view across the creek


mmmm does that Arab man want to trade his camel for Ali?


Kerrie liked the look of this sign don't ask me why, but she took a photo of it!

A local restaurant

Naif Souq (souq means market)

The busy streets of Dubai and a little Indian guy pulling his cart!

Wow look at all this alcohol

Preempting what would happen the next day

Oh life is good when you got some vodka :)