Yes, a ski resort in the desert!
But first! Lunch!
So that's how Carl's Jr and subway look in Arabian...
Talking about Arabian, Arab food!
The Arabian fast food is rather popular here
Nomage!
With our tummies fueled...
time to check out the mall!
Remembered seeing this store on a discovery channel special on the mall
some stores are so huge, they have their own travelator!
Domes are synonymous in Arbain culture
Getting at the center of things...
The mall galleries
decked with fancy over lighting
There's even a virgin megastore!
Shaun + snowboard can only mean...
Snow! at the Ski Dubai
The front ticketing area
Niffy polar bears!
Bow to the Zorb ball
Complete with a full ski slope!
The place is constantly maintained below freezing
A glass plane is all that seperates sainty and hypothermia
The entrance and suiting up point
The ski cafe
An atrium in the Emirates mall
The mall central fountain
All overlooked by the behemoth ski slope
complete with boutique stalls
ground shops and fountain in the background
Plants feeling the wrath of the heat
no wonder!
it does get as hot as 48 degrees midday
Crusing along Sheikh Zayed road again
Passing by several towers
including many tall ones
Like the Burj Khalifa!
These palm trees might give a hint...
The tower never needs to hide
It just pokes it's spire anywhere in the city
I guess it being the tallest building in the world...
have nothing to do with it!
With it's own Ferrari store. :P
Here we are at the Festival City!
The long glass roofed galleries
No Ferrari store is complete with a Ferrari!
The mall main atrium
Well, only in Dubai!
kids floating on water in giant balls
what on earth's at the atrium?