A Day of Water

Our final full day in Dubai and we had nothing planned.  Except to have fun, of course.  So, I let the girls set the itinerary.  They talked between themselves for a bit and then brought me their proposal - first we would head to the beach, rinse off and play in the showers for a bit before hitting the pool.  We would stay there until we were hungry and then go get ice cream/smoothies with our last tokens.  Once we finished desert we would head to our favorite lunch spot to dine al fresco.  When our bellies were full be would get ready to go to the Dubai Mall so we could spend some time at the Aquarium (do you sense a water theme to their day?).  We would finish the day off with dinner at someplace that the girls picked (I did reserve veto power) and head back to the hotel in time for bed.  Sounded like a great plan to me, so we made it happen!

We picked up our towels and headed out...

The beach flags flying said that we had to watch for jelly fish.  We didn't see any but made sure to watch where we stepped. 

Looking for jellyfish...

And then not caring so much about it and splashing to her hearts content.

And MadHatter preferred the sand today...

 We gathered our things and wakled past this...

 And headed to the showers to rinse the sand off...

 

OK - and play a bit...

Clean and hungry - it was time to spend our last tokens...

 We cleaned up and headed out.  The girls were ready for a bit more water...This time watching others play in it while they stayed dry.  The Dubai Aquarium, like many things in Dubai, is over the top and still so very incredible.  It has the World's Largest walk through tunnel holding 10 million liters of water, over 140 different species and measures 51 meteres in length.  Impressive to say the least.

 We spent some time oooohhhing and aaaahhhhing at the things that kept floating by over our heads (or under our feet) and then walked up two flights to see what else the aquarium has in store for us.  Which was a lot of cute creatures...including my own.

We then got a special tour in a glass bottomed boat.  We floated above the tunnel to watch the from above this time...

And then we called it a tour.  And headed next door to the RainForest Cafe to have dinner.  Girls choice.  And since the Hallmark store (Hallmark!) had made me a bit homesick, I didn't have the heart to veto them.

We soaked in a bit more of Dubai and the heat and of our waning days of vacation.  And then cabbed it back to the resort.  We went to sleep dreading our early wake up call but knowing that we had made memories that would last us a lifetime.