Dubai! New Years 2012!!!

For months seven of us girls have planned to go off to Dubai to ring in 2012 together!!  Yay!!  We were all off for the festive days and spent them in sparkly, dazzling, over the top Dubai.  It really is pretty.  A very well planned city, very very very clean, actually the whole time I felt like I was going to slip on the street, sidewalk, inside floors because everything was so sparkling clean.  No, actually, I did slip going up a slippery set of stairs and still days later have a big knobby bruised elbow! haha!  But ya the architecture is beautiful, every building has something special about it.  The metro system is fast, convienient and again, super clean!  Honestly I never thought I would notice a city for it's cleanliness but this was hard to miss, also I think it was something about the intense sun making everything glisten!  ahhhh!  So we stayed by the Burj Khalifa (currently the tallest building in the world) and gezz it towers over the rest of the cities sky scrapers!!  Also we were by the largest mall in the world that had every imaginable store....if, that is, what you dream about.  But I being a nonshopper was mildly to extremely overwhelmed.  Maybe that's why I, along with several husbands/dads/boyfriends found sanctity standing in front of the worlds largest peice of plexiglass (four stories high) starring at the fish and sharks.  Yes that's right, there is an aquarium inside the mall.  Not only an aquarium, there are 6ft plus sized sharks, stingrays, eels, scuba divers feeding the fish in a cage, scuba divers checking out the fish (kind of as we are checking them out....who is watching whom?).  Also there was a glass bottom boat full of people skimming across the surface of this fish tank.  Ya, maybe it wasn't so strange as I was standing there, but now thinking back, this was kind of a unique experience to have inside a mall.  So at anyrate we rang in the New Year at an outdoor cafe of delicious Lebanese food right by the lake and the Burj Khalifa!! Oh just lovely!  Remenesing about what a great and wonderful year we've all had together!  So lucky to be doing all this traveling and exploring!  AHH! yay!  At midnight we witnessed the best fireworks show I've ever seen!!  They had put fireworks all up and down the Burj and had it rigged so they would flash going up the building and going down the building, shoot out of the building, all different things.  I was like a kids, I think I screamed, giggled, and jumped up and down through the whole show, OH MY GOD, AHHH!!! Yes, it was that good!!!  And then there was this weird and funny techno/dance trance show on the lawn nearby that we checked out!  An overall amazing way to bring in 2012, sure to be another fabulous year!!!