Category: Mom’s Travel Tales
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Trip Journal: Our First full day in Dubai
Arriving in Dubai was simple and amazingly hassle-free. The airport was spacious and going through passport control, collecting our luggage and getting on our way was amazingly simple. I expected to see people covered in abayas (women) and dishdashas (men) everywhere, but there were many more people dressed as we were. R, our friend for…
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Trip Journal: Dubai- The plane facts
I’ve already shared a bit about why we are going to Dubai and what the week was like getting ready. In case you are interested, I thought I’d share a bit about our flight. (I’ve got lots of free time to write and have already watched two movies, so why not?!) We got to the…
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Trip Journal: Traveling to Dubai
I am flying to Dubai. Can you believe that? I can barely believe it myself! I am on an airplane over Spain, my daughter (in her Hello Kitty slippers) and son wiggling and mostly asleep on one side of me, an aisle, my husband, other son and mother-in-law asleep on the other side of me.…
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Trip Journal: Getting ready for Dubai
** This post was written before our trip to Dubai. We have since returned home and are currently battling jet lag.** What a week it has been! This Friday we leave for Dubai and so much has jumped out at me this week. Fortunately, though, each mini crisis has been pretty easily resolved, or else…
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I have a traveler’s confession to make
Ummm…. I have a confession to make. For the last ten days I have been on vacation way far away and very much offline. Please accept my apologies if you tried to reach me and I was unresponsive. And a huge thank you goes from me to Toni of The Happy Housewife and Joy of…