Today, Vickie, Kasey, Savannah and I headed out on the "Big Bus Tour Dubai". The Big Bus Tour is a double decker bus that takes you around the city to see the old and new attractions and sights. It is a hop-on, hop-off format so you can choose where to get off and when to get back on. We were using the bus mostly to see the sights of the old part of Dubai (I don't drive there...as it is too confusing for my comfort level!). After checking out the indoor ski facility at the mall and having lunch we got a pretty late start so our time was really limited. We also didn't anticipate that it would take the bus so long to get to our destinations. We got off at the Gold Souk, wondered over to the Spice Souk and then ended up taking a cab back as we had missed the last bus. Kasey did some haggling for souvinors in the spice souk. We walked around a bit, constantly telling shop owners "no thank you". Many of them asked where we were from. When I responded "the US, but I live here"....they stopped talking to me and directed the rest of the conversation to Vickie and Kasey. Guess they figured I wasn't going to be convinced to make a purchase. When Vickie or Kasey said they were from the US, many of the shop owners started rattling off all of the US cities they could name. Although we didn't get to see everything we had hoped to today...it was a fun afternoon out.
No comments:
Post a Comment