FLAT MAKENNA

Makenna's second grade class did a Flat Stanley project this spring. Makenna made a cute little drawing of herself and she was excited to send it to her Uncle Michael and Aunt Camille. They are living in Dubai, in United Arab Emerates. Michael is an engineer, and he and Camille are having incredible adventures over there. They went above and beyond the call of duty and took some amazing pictures for Makenna's project. She was so excited about it I made the pictures into a neat little book for her, but I thought it would be fun to share a few of them here on the blog.



Dubai has built these man-made islands out into the Persian Gulf shaped like palm trees and loaded them with luxury hotels, businesses, and housing. This is the Atlantis Hotel on the Jumeria Palm.



A mosque in Satwa.



This is a real live ski slope, complete with ski lift and real snow, inside a shopping mall. How cool is that!!



This is the Dubai Marina, taken from Michael and Camille's building. How's that for a home neighborbood.



This is Burj Dubai - the world's tallest building! You can hardly see the top through the haze.


This part of the Dubai Mall is called the gold souk, chalk full of jewelry.


The Dubai Marina and Promenade, with the yacht club in the background.


And next we have grazing camels. Not something you see everyday...





Flat Makenna made friends with their gorgeous Kitty.
And finally, here is Flat Makenna catching her flight home.


Thank you again, Camille and Michael, for the awesome pictures. And let me know if I botched up any info on these shots.