Wednesday, March 28th—Today we decided to take it pretty easy because of the weather. The last couple of days it has been about 100 degrees. Very, very hot!!! So today we just went to get a coffee this morning—really went for Ibby (the 3 year old) so she could get a baby-chino. Amanda has her hooked! We decided to go back to the souks and do some more haggling. I bought myself a straw hat for $2! From there we went back to the Mall of the Emirates and had dinner and saw a movie, Alpha Dog. It was in English but crazy to see the whole movie with Arabic subtitles. After the movie we went for coffee and desserts at Après which is situated at the base of the main slope of Ski Dubai - - it offers an amazing view and it was fun to watch all the skiers and snowboarders – some very amateur and some really, really great.

Amanda at the creek

Hank at the entrance to the gold souk.

The gold souk is crazy - talk about some bling bling! It's just store after store after store like this.

Hank on the creek (in his new, super expensive hat!)