A romantic night out

Today we decided to go exploring around the Dubai Mall, and caught ourselves an 8:20 pm performance of the world's largest dancing fountain to Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye" - very inspiring (ha ha). It was awesome!

I was at the giant bookstore doing a little book shopping this afternoon and Dan-O decided to join me there after he got off work so we could grab some Taco Bell for the first time in over a year. We snagged some Chalupas and sat outside on the food court patio in some wrought iron & glass chairs & tables astride a massive moving water feature. I've never eaten Taco Bell in such luxurious surrounds.

Afterward we decided to take a walk over to The Address hotel to check out their 63rd-floor bar/lounge, Neos.

The Burj Dubai is in the background, on the 63rd floor of this building looking out the window we weren't even anywhere near the top. That is a tall, tall building, my friends. Anyway it was a pretty cool little bar, which served up the best marini Dan has had yet anywhere in Dubai. I had an alcohol-free "Ipanema" in order to remain designated for driving, which was also fairly delicious. The view at night was incredible.

After that we took a nice long stroll in the hot night around the lake and through the souq and past the fountains. There's an island there called "old town" which is all arabian-style with a bunch of restaurants and shops and things. We saw some apartments there and decided it would be a nice place to live - next mission, find out exactly how unaffordable it is. :)