Trip to Dubai

We went to Dubai this past weekend on a mission to find the ONE and ONLY store in this country that sells baseball stuff.  No, I am not exaggerating!!  ONE store in the whole country that has baseball gloves, balls, and bats!  So we set out for Dubai, which is about an hour from Abu Dhabi.  We navigated the crazy drivers and streets until we successfully arrived at our destination!  It is a very small store but clean. (Avid shoppers know how important a clean store is...)  Choices are limited in this limited store, but we needed a couple of new gloves and some baseballs.  Can't play catch without them.....  Kids grow too fast!  Plus baseball season for the Dubai Little League begins in a couple of months, so we need to warm those arms and gloves back up!!! 

After we had purchased what we needed, we ventured over to one of the many malls, Mall of the Emirates, for lunch and to scope out the indoor ski slope that we have heard so much about.  The mall is beautifully decorated and has many top designer stores that I wouldn't be able to afford even on clearance (Dior, Gucci, Loius Vuiton, just to name a few) ....LOL!  Here are a few pictures of some things we saw on our way to the mall as well as the inside of the mall.

 I have several other pictures from Dubai that I will post in a later post.  I have not downloaded them from my regular camera yet, all of the pictures above were from my phone.  The engineering design of the buildings in Dubai and in Abu Dhabi are amazing!  Some of them make you say, "How did they do that?" or "That is really neat looking!"  Stay tuned.....