Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Up and coming

As promised, here are pictures from Dubai!

This is the Barj al Arab. The flagship hotel of the Dubai empire. It's a beautiful hotel (though not a 7-star as rumored... it's only a five star). It is however closed to all people except hotel guests.





















And this is the from the inside of the hotel looking up.















I was told that 80 percent of the world's cranes are located in Dubai. EIGHTY PERCENT!! I can't even imagine that... but I can believe it after being there and seeing scenes like this one.

1 comment:

KJBLS said...

wait, explain:
1) only guests can go into the hotel and
2) you have a picture from inside the hotel
which means
you were a guest at the hotel???

(oh, it's all coming together--you still have houghton's credit card!!)

and and--i tried texting you but no response--did you get it?