We checked into our beautiful hotel, The Rove, where we paid an amazing $44 per night with a view of the Burj Kalifa, the highest building in the world. Beautiful lobby that has comfortable seating for a 100 people. The hotel has a grocery store that sells Jiff peanut butter, Ramen noodles, Pringles, prepared foods, a bakery and fresh fruits and vegetables. A mini Wegmans plus Starbucks and TGI Friday’s.

Of course the first thing we have to do is shopping and the Dubai Mall just happens to be across the street. Jewelry stores like I have never seen before. American stores that we are used to seeing all over but carrying completely different looking clothing. We laughed that in H & M we could have bought outfits that we could have worn as Halloween costumes and burkas. Entire stores were you can buy burkas and turbans, an ice skating rink and an aquarium

Back to the hotel to pick up the men and off to The Frame. This is an immense structure that looks like a cooper picture frame that if you look through it on one side you see new Dubai and the other side is old Dubai. They talk in meters here and not feet but I can tell you it was VERY high. So we take an elevator to the top of the frame. Now Ro and I are afraid of heights. When we find out that when you walk on the opaque floor it turns clear and you can see the ground, we freak out. So like two idiots we are walking only where there are beams under the glass (like that would save us if the floor collapsed). The views were spectacular after we stopped looking down at our feet.

After The Frame back to the Dubai Mall for dinner. Ro and I went to a Turkish restaurant called Bosporus and the chickens (aka Sallyann, Jude, Chuck and Don) went to Texas Roadhouse. Yes, you read that correctly, Texas Roadhouse.