Lately I'm so infrequently in Dubai that I feel like I need to sight see when I'm back there, so Sunday I went to Souk Madinat in the Jumeriah District. I had been there for dinner for my bosses birthday, but it was night and really crowded and didn't really realize how big it was. There are so many shops, and corridors that I ended up spending 2hrs just walking around and looking at stuff. Then between all the corridors are walkways outside and different public squares for outside dining, concerts, and just open areas.
I had never even heard of the back area of the Souk with the water ways but it is so gorgeous. The commercials for Jumeriah say "The rebirth of Elegance" or "Spend Arabian nights in the Golden Era" or the like, and I thought it was ridiculous, but really, they are right! I can't wait to go back when it cools down to have dinner at the restaurants on the water way. I'm sure it's storybook with the Burj AlArab (big white hotel like shaped like a sail) lite up at night, and the candles burning in the elegant lanterns.
I also realized that I'm possibly a bit jaded on "tourist" things. I started noticing this when the US store managers came to work in Saudi. The one was like "OMG- I need this coffee mug that says Riyadh, KSA"- whereas I was like really?? The the other one saw the Ramadan Lanterns everywhere and was like "I need a lantern!" Again- I was like Really? So that made me think that I should probably start looking at things with a Curious/excited eye as opposed to the business eye which I'm thinking I use everyday.
This morning, as I was belly crawling into the Speakeasy Starbucks at IBM, I saw the "Dubai, UAE" coffee mug and thought... Yes. I'll take it. :-)
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