Dubai, day 4

We got to the Mall of Emirates early for our ski session and we of course took the opportunity to have a look around.  Some interesting shopping options there!

Daddy should have gotten this sweater.  Great for parent-teacher meeting for example.

Finally we were ready to go in for our very fist ski lesson!

Excited.

We leaned to snow plough!

Next we were getting Ella ready for the penguin encounter.

Cute.

It was COLD!  But the penguins were so cute. We got to pat one too.

Ski Dubai.  It was a lot of fun!

Next we were meeting Mommy and Daddy's friends for dinner.  It was our first Middle Eastern meal and we liked it!  Lots of pita and olives!

Uncle Ken. Hope we get to see him again soon!

Dubai, day 3

Day 3, mommy found us roaming in the apartment at 8am.  We looked too cute to be told off.

Again we had a huge breakfast and headed to the beach playground right away.

Jessica again went to the slide while Daddy, Ella and I tried to swim in the sea.  We lasted 1 minute and it was back to the playground. :-)

Quick lunch at hotel pool and we were off the to much anticipated desert trip!  We had to first stop to defeat our tires before we entered.

A sea of sand!

And we got to see some lovely desert animals.

 We arrived at a falcon camp, where we got to roll around in sand for a bit before the show.

 Marley the falcon.

 We got to see him up close.  Handsome little guy.

Next we followed the team of cars and began some dune bashing!!

We all decided that it was the best thing ever!  We were jolted back and forth so much it was super  fun!

Another car in the team got stuck the dunes.  Hope they got out ok!

We pulled over at a spot to see the sunset.  We had to do sand angels of course!

 Jessica and I came up with some good poses.

 Ella got hungry.  Luckily we were prepared.

I was too busy to eat.  I ran around free!

 It was a job catching all of us to get in a photo.

 This could be Ella in Star Wars looking for her droid.

 The sunset we travels miles for.

We arrived another camp to meet some very obedient camels.  They were extremely cute and we enjoyed the rides.  Thank you camels!

 We met another falcon at camp.

 And we got to go up close as well!

 Then we had henna done.  Busy busy day!

 We sampled some Middle Eastern dishes.

And last but not least:  belly dancing!  We were so captivated we did not move at all during the performance!

Dubai, day 2

We all slept like babies for at least 12 hours straight.  We needed it.  And Dubai greeted us with beautiful blue sky and sea.

And added to the excitement the bouncy castle/slide was being erected.  Yay!

We all pigged out at breakfast.

Then we hit the pool.  It was winter and it was still a little cool even the pool was heated.

Ella got cold quite quickly, but we carried on until our lips were purple and were shivering uncontrollably.

We had lunch by the pool, and played in the playground, and we were ready for the slide.

 We lost count on how many time we were on.

 We tried many different ways of descend too.

Ella waited patiently, and got donuts!  Lucky girl.

We found this guy when we got home.  We thought someone had left behind an old cuddly toy in our living room, but it was actually a dog made out of rolled up towels.  Cute!