Before we head off on our next trip, I wanted to finish sharing photos from Abu Dhabi. One morning we visited Emirates Palace, a 7 star hotel that people visit just to peek at the extravagance that they’ll never get a chance to experience in real life.
My camera can’t capture the size of this atrium. It reminded me of when we went to the capitol building in DC and stood under the dome. The room is the size of a football field and then you look up to see this:
She’s usually a good sport about cruising around to all these different sites — as long as I keep moving.
The boys were amazed by the prices in the restaurant. $300 dollars for seafood soup? Or, if you’re on a budget, in the “small eat” category you can get a $50 salad.
The inside of the hotel kept going and going. It was a bit of a gold overload. The place was almost deserted. I guess all the people who can afford to stay here can also afford to come during high season, when it’s not a bazillion degrees outside.
I don’t have a better picture of this because it was in an area labeled “no photography,” but I couldn’t pass up the chance to take a picture of a gold vending machine. Not a gold colored machine that spits out snacks, but a vending machine that sells bars of gold. You put in your cash (cash only — who carries enough cash to buy gold?!?) and select the size bar that you want. Then you can cruise around Abu Dhabi with gold bars in your pocket. I’m obviously not rich enough to even begin to comprehend how gold bars would be useful, except maybe if you were playing poker and ran out of chips. If you plunked down a gold bar and said “All in,” that might be kind of impressive . . .
