We were off of school officially on March 23 and decided to stick around Muscat for a day or two before heading to Abu Dhabi for Part 1 of our Spring Break. We went to Seeb Park where we shot some hoops in the wind and rain and then the next day headed to the Grand Hyatt to spend a day by the pool with our friend and colleague, Jess. We got some serious sun and were nice and burned for our trip to Abu Dhabi by car on March 31. We made sure we had the proper insur...

This weekend was our first trip to Dubai; the Las Vegas of the Middle East. We left right after dinner on Thursday and arrived in Dubai at about 10:30. We headed to our hotel and crashed for the night...it was a busy day with the school's National Day celebration all morning. The next day we got up and headed to Dubai Mall where there is an indoor aquarium and waterfall amongst the many stores. We strolled around there for a bit before deciding to head to Jumei...