Dubai - 19 Dec

Hello,

Arrived on 19 Dec morning at 4.30am Dubai time. Reached home at bout 6 am after the nightmarish check-out at immigration. Weather was cold with strong wind. On went my new coat! Haha...
Saw some city lights and the sun was already rising by the time we reached home. Had breakfast of some sort and unpacked. Tried to settle down but was too tired to do anything else.
I don't remember much of the day but we went to our very first shopping spree at Mall of the Emirates (MOE) which is nothing compared to Pavillion. Humongous is the word we use a lot here. Nothing in moderation. Didn't concentrate on where we're going but it was a nice mall. Had lunch at Paul's. A very nice french restaurant cafe. Joined by Dev and Juliana; forgot to mentioned that they picked us up that morning from the airport. They have a Porsche Cayenne, super cool man! We
"just" have a BMW 3 Series. Haha.. planning to seat in both cars over the next few days.
They decided to stay up through the night as Jen and Kev will be arriving on 20 Dec morning, same time as us the previous day. All the best to them. Had a simple dinner, don't remember what though. Hehehe... Got a call from Dev and Juliana to meet them up for drinks.
We were just putting on our jeans when we were told to dress up. I mean, it's just drinks at a bar for goodness sake! Apparently, they do things differently here. They drive on the wrong side of the car and wrong side of the road for one thing already. Now for a 20 minutes drink we had to put on our best gear. We were already so tired by then as we didn't rest much during the day.
So, we changed to clubbing gear, all black with heels and dangly earrings and off we go. For one thing, the city lights are nice, all high rising buildings and all very bright. They light to play with lighting here. Burj is gorgeous at night by the way.
The club is called Bar 44, located at the 44th floor of Grovner House hotel. Super cool man as it's the highest floor.
By the way, we had Earl Grey tea! Hahaha... with tidbits of olives (super juicy and delicious) and mixed nuts. I have to tell you that the view from the top is great! The lounge singer is good too. It was Juliana's birthday the next day, so the lounge singer sang a very sexy birthday song. Never had that happening to me before.
We left about 1am, I think. I was already half dead with sleep by that time and they have to wake up to pick Jen and Kev up. We wanted to go too but couldn't wake up in time.
That's all till they arrive in 6 hours time. Tata...