The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...

Made our way to Dubai this morning, had to call in to Dubai outlet mall so Ang could buy herself a jacket and jersey because the weather in Belgium last night was rain and a temperature of 9 degrees. We get to Outlet mall and all pile into the lift, wondering why the door wouldn't close, so we look at the screen and it says OVERLOAD. OMG shame lol. It took a max of 13 and a load of 1000kg. Something wrong with that lift I reckon. Had some lunch and made our way to the hotel.

View of the pool from our balcony

On entering the hotel lobby we were overwhelmed by the myriads of people occupying the lobby area, it took them a bit of time to find our reservation, but eventually we got there.
We had all good intentions of giving the kids a sleep before we went to Mirdif City Centre for dinner at P.F.Changs, however Meriana wasn't having a bar of sleep as opposed to Jazz who had a good hour or so and it certainly showed in Meriana when it was time to go for dinner, there was melt down, after melt down, but she ended up having a cat nap from the hotel to  Mirdif.

Tracey

Our first port of call was Borders bookshop, to get Tracey some books (apparently bookshops are rare in her part of Beijing)  Tracey (for those of you who attended our wedding, was our wedding celebrant and Ang used to teach her son) will be joining us in Rome, which we're quite excited about.  From Borders we made our way to P.F. Changs where wee had a feast; and I mean a feast.  I seemed like they were bringing dish, after dish, after dish.  From dinner we rolled to the money exchange where got we got a few dirhams (local UAE currency) in Euros.

All in all some very excited travelers who I think will be staying away from lifts as much as possible after being told twice that we were overloaded hehehe.

but for now, it's goodnight from the desert, and our first step on the thousand mile journey has begun.  Tomorrow will be our first update from Belgium.