Dubai trip

For those I wasn't able to tell before I left, I made a quick trip to Dubai. Basically spent two days, three nights here, as we had a meeting with our largest fuel contractor, Supreme. They needed someone from the IJC in Kabul to attend and I was the only one of the three available people who had both a passport and civilian attire. So I got a nice little break kind of by default.

Anyway, I arrived late Saturday night. On Sunday we had a full day of meetings, working through both lunch and dinner and putting in about 14 hours straight. Monday we were able to finish up around lunchtime, leaving me the afternoon to try to run around and see all of the sights.

I took a whole bunch of pictures and I'm trying to attach two here. The first is in front of the world's tallest building, the 110 story Burj Dubai. The second is at the beach with the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel in the background.

Both very impressive structures. I also saw the man-made islands off the coast, the ones in shape of a palm tree. No wonder the city is going broke :) Through all that in, along with a trip to two malls, and the Gold/Spice/Silk Souk areas (famous shopping area) and it was a busy afternoon.

So now it's 345am and I'm back at the Dubai airport, awaiting my (already delayed) flight back to Kabul. It was snow flurrying in Kabul as I was leaving a few days ago; we'll see what it has in store when I get there in a few hours. I think that's about it for now.