R&R

I know I have been horrible at keeping up the blog. I have been so swamped at work and then I got some r&r and have been digging out since I got back a little over a week ago. We had a change in leadership here in June - the guy I was working for as left and a new person has come in and I have been swamped. I did manage to get away from the 28th of June through 6 July. I went with my friend Kallee from here to Dubai, UAE for 3 days and then on to Jordan for a week and a day trip to Israel. It was an amazing vacation. I will post some pictures over the next few days. Here is our first stop Dubai. I think it is the most under construction city in the world. There are cranes everywhere and unfinished buildings all over the place. They are building the tallest building in the world and it is also the place where they have the indoor ski slope at a mall. Dubai is a Muslim country, that has become very westernized. They have alot of British and having lived in London for so long, it was nice to see some of my favorite stores like Marks and Spencers and Monsoon. I did some shopping there and we went on a hop on hop off bus. I also got my hair cut, so there is a picture of the stylist. It was only like $40 and I thought he did an ok job. There is still a bit of the old city that remains with the gold and spice souks and the boats that carry the exports to other countries thought the Gulf of Arabia.