Dubai Diary - Day 2
I was still out cold
in the morning of our 1st day at Dubai and Mom woke me up at 10 am.
Gradually, I knew I had to get up. Hey, I did not remember I was in Dubai that
time!
“Let us order breakfast”
Kochakka handed over a menu from “Palm Valley”. I and Mom pondered over the
menu for some time. Mom’s suggestion was pepper roast. I was like “Not for me,
I rather have a paratha!” Dad wanted idli and Kochakka, dosa. So soon I was
gobbling down paratha, Dad was eating idli, Kochakka had dosa and Mom, her
pepper roast.
It went like this
for 3 more days. Mom joked that “don’t forget that we are going back to Riyadh
and don’t expect all these from me”
It was time to
explore Dubai, I was very excited. Kochakka offered me the front seat, it was a
real privilege.
We first went for
a drive, looking and admiring all the buildings and we were all excited to see
the Burj Khalifa. It looked totally glamorous while sparkling in the sun and
showing off its smooth, silver color.
Then we went to Jumeira
beach and it was so beautiful! I stood in the water and felt the cool water
lap. I enjoyed myself by playing in the
water and even tasted it by putting my finger in the water to see how salty it
was!
We drove towards
The Palm and stood outside Atlantis.
It was time for
lunch and our destination was Nando’s. Mom
had a craving for it since we had eaten from Nando’s in London. She even
checked the whole map of Riyadh, but unfortunately, there is no Nando’s in
Saudi Arabia. We stuffed ourselves with
chicken and peri-peri sauce and waddled out reluctantly. It was THE most
awesome food!
Next we headed to Mall
of the Emirates, which was in my list of destinations. Ski Dubai is called “winter in the desert”, with
snow everywhere! You have to wear all the special type of winter clothes which
I like to call ‘winter- proof’. I sat on
a sledge and Mom pulled it. It was very funny and we felt like Eskimos.
I had signed up
for interaction with penguins. Mom, Dad and Kochakka waited outside. There were
only about 8 people excluding me who went for penguin interaction and half of
them were children. I was called by the
trainer to touch the penguins and he instructed the penguin ‘Bubbles’, who
climbed a few steps, waddled and stood behind me.
I was again
introduced to a pair of penguins, ‘Mona’ and ‘Hadi’. This time I touched them.
Their feathers were furry, smooth and oily. I felt very excited. Mona shook her
head and burped. When the next three girls touched Hadi they jumped back with a
disgusted look on their face. Hadi had done potty!! We rolled around laughing.
I had always felt that one had to go to Antarctica just to touch a penguin, but
I was wrong!
We had dinner at
Kannan Kochachan’s house. Tappu and I played for a while and we planned to
watch movie “Life of PI” next day. Tappu and Kannan kochachan decided to take a
leave from both school and office. We were all delighted.
good one
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