ROADBLOCK!! Bumped off of Alitalia transfered to Turkist Airlines?? We are heading to Istanbul today transfer to Alitalia to Milan overnighter to Amsterdam to our next stop India! Two days travel...Wish us luck trying hard for the pictures computers not helping.

We shipped our trappings over to the Intercontinental Festival which is conected the newsest mall here in Dubai. It's big last night was hopping everybody was out. Let me explain that the Dudai Shopping Festival started two nights ago and it's a week long Festival where shopping is encouraged with many sales kind of like a Columbus day sale at home, but the Malls go all out with bands,concert Pianist,jugglers,dancing fountains and a fireworks and fire show that w...

Well after a long night we have to leave.Boo. We stayed out til midnight and slept in til 9:30am Buffet breakfast includes shrimp and steak filet. Just had a helicopter land on the helipad. We will get a good bye picture as we head to our next hotel Intercontinental Festival brand new opened in december and we had enough points for a two night stay free lets see what kind of room that will be.

Had a night at the races to go see an old friend. Diabolical was trained by Steve Klesaris back at Fairhill Training Center Maryland, But too much money was offered and it was decided he should come here to live in Dubai. Well we were reading the sports section and darn if there wasn't a picture and article about him running tonight and seeing that we were only 20 minutes away we grabbed a taxi. He stumbles out of the gate but finished a good but tired looking th...

What can I say this place is the best I have ever been treated. People pay $100 usd just to take a look in the lobby,it's worth every cent we spend. Our room is 2600 square feet larger than our house (they upgraded us free) 20th floor over looking Palm Island. There is two hot tubs three refrigerators (stocked)three beds four couches one six person dinning room table a coffee maker ( a real nice one) four plasma tv's two two person showers and on and on. We have ...