Dubai

So we just got back from Dubai, my favourite place right now. I had to go renew my vusa to the states so they would let me back into their stupid country. Anyway, we spent the week in Dubai and it was three kinds of amazing.

We got there on Monday morning and had a time trying to find a National Bank of Abu Dhabi because for my interview at the American Consulate in Dubai, i have to show up with a bunch of documents, and one of them was a receipt showing i have paid the fee and it had to be that specific bank. So we landed around half past noon and by the time we got out of passport control, baggae claim and got a cab, it was around one fifteen. So we are looking for this bank yeah, and the driver takes us to the Abu Dhabi Coomercial Bank. We realize we are in the wrong place and go around looking for the bank. Which is closed. They close at one thirty. Ok, so we make a plan to go early the next monring though my interview is at seven thirty in the morning.

We found a hotel, the Hallmark Hotel. It was...quaint. Clean. They had cable. What else do you need really? Then we went to our usual haunt, City Center Mall. So that only confirmed how much i hate malls and the people who go to them, they do not know how to bloody walk. The kids are demented or something and just charge at you or run right in front of your trolley and scream bloody murder when you run their ignorant asses over. And people are like sheep, stupid stupid creatures with no sense of direction or consideration. I hate malls.

The week was great, i loved being back in Dubai, ther whether was fabulous, like summer in a regular climate. Their winter is everyone else's summer weather and their summer is the stomach of hell. A few funny things happened. We switched rooms, on day because my brother and dad hadn't arrived in Dubai yet cuz Farai was writing exams. Anyway, we moved to the same room, one floor lower. So one day mum forgot and she went to the second floor and unlocked the door and walked in on these arab guys sitting there in shock. It was the funniest thing ever. Then on our last night there, we were going to buy something and our cab driver had some sort of gastro-intestinal issues and kept farting out loud. I mean like, long, high pitched farts. Every few seconds. ANd we were caught in traffic. So we had to endure such for like half an hour. He was shameless, and we could not laugh cuz it was silent (between farts that is) cuz he had the radio off. It was a nightmare but so incredibly funny at the same time.

Ok, i really am not in the mood to blog today. I'm gonna stop now.