At around 9am we set off (in Patti's car - thank you!) to Dubai. Tony was keen to see the museum, Palace, spice souk and to ride along the river in a water taxi. I was hoping to also fit in a swim and a trip to the infamous Dubai Mall (just to get Tyler a new sun hat of course!)
The journey from our home base at Hili took about 50 minutes and we saw orange sand dunes and some wild camels - hooray. Small restaurants appeared intermittently throughout the journey as well as many exits to farms and smaller communities.
Approaching Dubai was pretty amazing - it went from desert pretty much straight into city and the tallest building (whose name everybody except for me will probably remember) really stood out against the skyline.
Our plan was to follow the signs to the trade centre, which would eventually lead onto the corniche (beach). We however, managed within minutes of our approach to get seduced by a brown tourist sign which said 'floating bridge' - I'm sure you would have too. We never did see the bridge or end up doing any of the afore mentioned bequests...what happened you ask...well...kid city happened. We somehow stumbled upon the most amazing looking park with beautiful greenery and the most amazing playgrounds...we never did get to those amazing playgrounds as right in the middle of the park was this huge primary-coloured building, which turned out to be every kids (and perhaps adults) dream. I guessed from the outside that it might just be an indoor play centre, but no, for 40 dirhams (approximately $14AU) for the whole family, we had six hours of the most interactive fun the kids have ever had in an indoor space (our home excluded of course.)
Kids City ended up being an interactive science/cultural centre, where everything was child-based, from putting cogs on to make a wheel turn, pulling the same weight with different levers, creating life-sized bubbles, crushing cans to make art, putting telephones on an over-sized globe to hear people speak in languages from around the world...oh, I could go on forever. Having probably read a few of my blogs by now however, you will have come to realise that they are very short and concise in nature and not likely to ramble...much.
To cut a possibly long blog short, we had a great day out. Did we see much of Dubai...erm, no...but there's always next time...
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