A bit about Arabian culture

Here is a little bit about our trip to Dubai.

A stuffed camel at the Museum.

City girl dressed as a gypsy.

Spice Souq, lots of yummy smells here! Saffron is the native favorite.

This is an Abra, a typical taxi boat used to get accross the creek.

The way that Rich explained Dubai in a nut shell is that it's Mormon paradise. He's totally right. Everyone dressess very modestly and there are no advertisements at all. Even the television has hardly any swearing and absolutely no kissing or intemacy (its all edited out of the movies.) The men who are muslim Emerates wear long white dresses called Dishdashas and headscarfs called The women have Abeyyas, long black robe/dresses and burkas that cover their face and hair also black.

We had a great trip to the Souqs (markets) and wandered around looking at lots of fun stuff. There were textile souqs, Spice souqs, and the biggest one was the Gold souq. Lots of gold jewelry everywhere, bling city. I think my favorite was the spice souqs though.

Rory and City swim in the hotel pool every day, so they have turned right back into fish. Pretty much all they had learned in the Philippines came right back to them. We have gone to the beach only once so far, the girls were on a search for Sponge Bob square pants and the othe characters too. They only found Patrick the starfish, mr. crabs and a couple of Jelly fish. They were so cute playing with another couple of filipino kids.