So, after our epic day in Abu Dhabi we decided that we needed a rest. The next day we went to the beach at Al Mirfa! The lady who has been watching our dog works in Al Mirfa, so we asked her about the beach and she told us that it was near the Mirfa Hotel. So we went to the Mirfa Hotel and asked them about the beach and they ushered us out to their private beach. Apparently it is still "under construction" so there was no one else there, but Bobbi and me, but there was water and sand and wooden umbrella things and lounge chairs. I think the "under construction" thing referred to the two-foot drop-off running along the middle of the beach. That made it a little weird to navigate, and every once in a while a worker would come along and take a shovelful of sand off the top and spread it out on the bottom.
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| The Mirfa Hotel |
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| Cool stained glass skylight in the hotel lobby |
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| The beach |
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| The Persian Gulf! |
When we got hungry we went into the hotel to have lunch. The menu had camel burgers on it! Bobbi decided to order one, but I was really hungry and I didn't want to take a chance on getting something I didn't like, so I ordered something safe. I got a Coke and she got a Sprite, I love the Arabic scripts of familiar things, it's fun for me to see how they transliterate things into Arabic, because I'm a big ol' dork.
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| Camel Burger! |
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| Excited to try something new! |
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| First Taste! |
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| It's a camel burger.... |
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| But...but...camels are cute.... |
She couldn't finish the burger after having thought too much about the cute camels we've seen all over the place here.
After lunch we went back out to swim, but this time decided to try out the hotel's pool. I don't know if the people there assumed that we were guests, or if they are just really accommodating, but they gave us towels and let us swim in the pool free of charge!
When we left the hotel and began our trip home we saw the public beach that the other teacher was probably telling us about. It looked nice! I think we're going to try it next time instead of accidentally sneaking onto a private beach!
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