Today was a relax-at-the-pool day. I may have found the best schedule. Get at 6:30, have coffee, water and breakfast. Do some studying/work from 7:30 to 9. Hit the pool from 9 to 11. Shop, relax or whatever until about 3pm when the temperature starts to cool down. Sit back at the pool from 3…

Since the sun rises around 5 or so, I was awake at 6am trying to decide what to do with myself for the day. So, I determined to read a bit, go to the Starbucks in the nearby Lamsy Plaza, come back, work out and then get ready to make a visit to the Deira…

After waking up to construction work, I realized that yesterday there was no noise in the morning. Friday is the holy day in Dubai, so there were hardly any cars on the streets, few people out and mercifully no construction work at the crack of dawn. It gets light here around 5ish, much like Japan.…

My second day in Dubai was pretty quiet as Allan felt the need to clean his entire apartment floor and some of the outside windows despite the insane heat outside. So, I relaxed and did some homework. In the evening, we went to happy hour in the MovenPick hotel nearby. No pictures there, but it…

I am in my second day in Dubai and have to admit that I haven’t really seen or done much just yet. However, I thought that I would write anyway. 😀 Starting with my nearly 24-hour travel from Portland, Oregon to Salt Lake to Paris to Dubai, it was a very long day to say…