Yep...that's an indoor ski slope. I guess living in the desert makes it difficult to get your snow skiing in. The picture isn't the best b/c it's through a window, but notice the Arab man on the right playing in the snow.
While we were in Dubai we also spent some time at the beach, this one was very different from the last deserted beach, but was still good. We laid under palm trees reading and listening to our Ipods pretty much all afternoon.
It was kind of interesting to observe the people. Most of the foreigners were in bikinis and skimpy swimsuits while the locals were totally covered. What is interesting is that, even though they were covered you could still see a difference in what they were wearing and know that they were in their 'beach clothes'.
Everywhere we went there were prayer rooms, in airports, in malls, on the side of the street. Here in the Sandbox people just lay their prayer rugs out in the middle of the sidewalk but I guess in 'fancy' places they don't do that. The bathroom signs were also interesting. I guess I never thought about how religiously discriminating our bathroom signs are showing a woman in a skirt (or a man in pants). Ya'll probably think I'm crazy, but I was just excited to have public bathrooms...I didn't care what the signs looked like! 
Everything there was really kind of fancy...well, it was probably just normal but it felt really nice coming from the Sandbox. The streets were paved and had sidewalks, there was air conditioning, they had real malls and not the open/outdoor markets, starbucks, restaurants, taxis with meters. I hate to say it but coming from the Sandbox it sure doesn't take much to make for a nice vacation!
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