What no cheap curry

Up early considering how late we had arrived last night. The heat outside was incredible to me at such an early hour.

We headed out to the Grand Mosque, it was stunningly white and certainly grand. This Sheikh Zayed's creation , 82 domes, 1,000 columns and gold plated chandeliers and for MAIT the largest hand woven carpet.

Eco son and I wore long sleeves while the ladies had to seek the black outfit and cover up. They had to cover their hair with a head scarve as well as a black cloak. It made it difficult to spot them as we walked around as all the women were dressed the same way.

Interesting place with a simple huge hall for worship, seemingly 40,000 can worship here at one time.

The workmanship is inredible and they are still building bits and finishing the gardens.

I took many photos and thought of making a multi photo blip , but decided on just one.

Eco son and I tracked the birds around the many ledges and sought shadows to get out of the heat. The only bit that was banned for photography was a tiny little mosque at the side that had wailing Arabic coming out of it, I assume this is where Sheikh Zayed is buried.

Eco sister took us to the Shopping mall to escape the heat and also to feed us. Great fun in the Arab supermarket, it was huge and mobbed.

Back home and Eco aunt had a meeting with her bosses so she had organised for us to eat in one of the Hotel restaurants when she was at her dinner meeting. It was lovely and the staff were excellent as was the food.

A very pleasant day rounded off with Indy film number one.