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dubai hotel

Posted by Stacy on Friday, February 01, 2008 9:59 PM

This past spring I finally graduated from
college.  The last four years just flew by and I can’t
even imagine what I am going to do next.  I worked
very hard all through school and managed to stay on
the dean’s list the entire time.  There was nothing
like the moment I was handed my diploma and looked out
at all of the other people graduating.  I swear, the
celebration would have gone on forever, had I not been
forced to stop by a need for sleep and a shower.  As
the party finally began to die out and people a filed
out in to the night, my parents and I were the only
ones left.  They had both been sort of reserved all
day and I hadn’t been able to discover why.  I
immediately confronted them thinking they were
beginning to get an empty nest syndrome or something.
They sat down on the couch and smiles just started to
burst off of their faces.  They broke the news to me
that they were giving me a big gift for all my work;
they were sending me around the world for the year and
everything would be paid for. I had no idea at that
point what to think except that I was happy I didn’t
have to face the realities of the job world quite yet.
Two weeks later I left for Europe.
       In my five months of traveling I went to many of the
big cities in Europe and the middle East.  Most of the
places I stayed were great in how rustic the hotels
and restaurants were.  The flip side was what I saw at
the Dubai Hotel.  The city struck me at first because
it was just this gem of a place that I didn’t even
know existed except in the news.  I was actually
booked for one of the Dubai hotel apartments.  This
meant I wouldn’t be moving around from hotel to hotel,
but I had it for the whole month.  The lobby itself
was even stunning with it’s monster fountain and
marble floors.  On the floor in what I believe was
real gold were engraved the words, Dubai Apartments.
When I got to my room I just fell in love with it.
From the view I could see the bay, the golf course,
and all the Dubai villas in the distance.