Since it was the weekend, Max decided to bring us to a nice place for breakfast again. And he brought us to this place called Paul's which is similar to Delifrance but much better and nicer!
Then we made our way towards Dubai Outlet Mall.. which is a large shopping centre filled with factory outlets!
Just before we arrive, there is this universal studios gate tat looks perfect but it is seated in front of a piece of waste land... I wonder if they built halfway and stopped or built it and scrapped the whole thing because they were not making money... (I googled it.. financial crisis crippled their plans.. http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/universal-studios-dubailand/)Anyway, after walking around, we went to the arcade and it was such a boring arcade! And then this BLING BLING machine caught my eye.. can you guess wat they are asking you to "catch"?
Hairclips! Hahahahahahahahah
Then we went to Dragon mart and walked around trying to find a toy for Ace.. the place is so big lor and finally after trudging up and down for a few hours, we found a poilceman set for him.. Max's best 10AED investment because it kept Ace busy for many days after that during the day..On our way home, we drove past this sanctury place for flamingos and there were so many of them.. I wonder if we can go in and visit..
We went home, took a rest and went back to SINO CHAI.. the restaurant that was closed onthe first day we wanted to have dinner in Dubai... it is rumoured to be the best Chinese food in Dubai and the BEST bubble tea in Dubai too! :) And I really think the taiwanese food here is delicious! It aint a rumour.. IT IS THE BEST! hahahaha... Too bad they are in some ulu ulu health care district and so there are not many customers.. I wonder how they survive.. I would certainly love to go back again...
After dinner, it was still early and Ace said he didn't want to go home, so Max brought us to the Old Souk (Souk means market in arabic) .. he said that he has never visited all these places of interest the 6 months he is here and it is because we are here that he has a vested interest to visit these places.. hahaha....
But the souk was very quiet.. just a few people walking around.. and some people eating in the restaurants.. and then we came across an empty piece of land where there is like this group of old folks starting a campfire, eating and talking and singing songs.. i wonder if they are paid to do tat.. cos they are apparently leading the original lives of the early pple living in Dubai...
And then Max said that AC said she loved to take a boat ride along the creek. They have this sort of dhow taxi (a type of boat) that helps people cross the creek easily for 1aed. It is like a 3-5 min ride and AC said that when she is bored, she loves to go on the boat.. but we couldnt find the taxi stand.. so in the end, we tried to ask a taxi driver on the road and he finally gave us proper instructions..
That's us on the boat.. initially, Ace was really scared.. but he started to enjoy himself more and more...
It was really quite an experience.. I wish we had something traditional like that in SGP.. the dhows here dun have railings and in the dhows, there is just this box where people sit on with a hole in the middle that houses the engine and the boatman.. if we had this in sgp, you for sure will see railings and orange floats all around.. HAHAHA...
Ace really enjoyed it and asked if we could come again...
Then we walked around the Textile Souk to buy some stuff and of cos.. get a yoyo for Ace.. who kept bugging Max to buy him a yoyo.. we searched high and low for it and finally found it! :)
In addition to the YoYo, we saw a car that looked like the Forrester that max drives in Dubai and Max bought that for Ace too :)
And then we went home and it happened so that Transformer was on tv and so we watched the show together and Ace slept at 1.30am that night...
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