First, thank you for the friendly comments from home. You both know Chad well enough to know pictures won't be a problem. Unfortunately, we don't have a great way to upload them here, and so I won't be able to share many (or maybe any) until I get home. The blog posts are just using stock photos, but they are accurate to what we're seeing! I missed sharing how we ended our first full day in Dubai. We arrived exhausted back at our hotel from our intense day of wa...

Hello from Dubai! We made it safely - smooth travel all the way, everything went exactly according to plan. The flight can only be described as long, but we managed to get quite a lot of sleep. Unfortunately, Chad has a cold, making the flight and our subsequent adventures more of a challenge, but it did mean we got to experience the great Dubai pharmacies! And he's hanging in there like a champ. It was Thursday night when we left DC and Friday night when we lan...