Dubai is certainly interesting.  Ronan, Jon and I took the Hop-On Hop-Off Big Bus Tour, which lasted both days in all.  It's really just a huge city.  What's amazing is the mass amount of construction happening all at once; they go 24 hours a day in two twelve-hour shifts just to make deadlines.  Everything is the biggest and best, or being reconstructed to become the biggest and best.  Honestly, who needs an entire indoor ski slope in a mall!?  It's a fun city, nevertheless, full of little treasures and a nice mix of very modern and traditional architecture.  I do recomend visiting some day - every year it will just become more and more different.



