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Ok now onto the final chapter from my trip to Dubai…

So I headed off to CNBC and they were nice enough to send another air conditioned car to pick me up and we headed off to the studios. As I met the anchor for the 3pm show he explained to me that what I said would be translated immediately and he would ask me questions in Arabic, sounded easy to me, well it wasn’t really. The woman who was translating was taking the announcers questions and translating them to me in English, I could barely understand her, she talked so fast. At one point I just wanted to lean into the announcer and say “what did you say?” Because I knew he spoke English….lol Well anyway the interview went really well regardless and I should get a copy of it any day now and will post it here on the good old blog soon.

So I thanked them at CNBC and headed out to go ski. SKI? Sure in Dubai they have it all… including snow. I also hear that at the Dubai Mall they are building an indoor ski slope that rivals some Vermont slopes.

As a Minnesota native somehow indoor snow just doesn’t seem that exciting to me… Who would want that, who could afford that? Well, then again how many indoor waterparks and fake beaches do we have here? Guess you always want what someone else has. Anyway, I must admit it’s pretty sureal to see people swooshing down the slopes when it’s 120 degrees outside. I passed on the chance and decided to head to the pool instead, even a maniac trader needs a break once in awhile. So I headed up to the pool deck at the fairmont.

They have two pools it said, sunrise and sunset pools. So I went outside. Yup there was a very nice big pool and a little one connected to it which was more like a spa. The sun was blazing hot as I relaxed and got some tan. After about 45 minutes it was all I could stand, incredible heat.

I jumped in the pool and decided to head up to the room as the sun was starting to go over the top of the building anyway. As I walked out the towel guy said we are about to open the sunset pool please join us. I said huh? It turns out that they have an exact copy of these pools on the other side of the building. As the sun crosses the building they switch.

Thus the sunrise and sunset pools…Of course how stupid of me, you find that at every hotel, don’t you?

My point is that everything in Dubai is amazing, opulent and well “if one is good, two is better.” The question is can it be sustained.

I spent the afternoon exploring the city and walking by the gold market and mostly taking in the atmosphere.

In the evening I met with my buddy Aussie Joel and his girlfriend for dinner out by the infamous Palm Island. It was excellent and we talked for hours. They like living there but like anywhere it has it’s good and bad points.

I had to leave early the next day and had some writing to finish so we ended the evening about midnight and I retired back to my hotel. Next day I left Dubai and headed to Abu Dhabi airport.

The flight is fifteen hours but throw in security in Abu Dhabi and it becomes 20 hours…

High high security as you can imagine, no complaints here. Supposedly they now have these new full body scanners, nice. Little more information then I need in that picture below, but glad they found the gun.

My overall feelings of my first trip to the UAE were very good. The people were extremely nice, I almost always felt safe and free to do as I pleased. Dubai especially is as modern or even much more modern then the US. Even so, it’s not home and there are many differences, especially in personal freedoms and equal rights. But all of that is understandable as the Muslim religion has certain rules and this after all is their home, not mine.

I certainly will look forward to returning to the UAE soon as some of my private meetings yielded some very good contacts. I can’t imagine what they will have there by then or how many ski resorts will be available. Hell maybe by the next time I go I can just fly into the new Dubai Spaceport..

Today though I am stuck using the plane.

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