Construction

This entire city is "under construction".....I've had at least 20 people tell me that about 25% of the world's cranes are in Dubai. Whether that statistic is true or not there are enough cranes here to store in Paris Hilton's who-ha. I can't wait to see this city in 5 years. It's either going to be a complete disaster or it's going to be the best thing that has ever happened to the Middle East since the day I was born (side note: the latter is a highly unlikely scenario). AND, there is still so much land up for grabs.

Actually (true story time), one of the only strips of beach where you don't have to pay an entrance fee was about to disappear due to some development hungry hustlers. Pretty soon people started petitions online and wrote local newspapers about their disappointment of the closure of the last public beach. It only took two weeks before the Sheikh called off the development. And that is one of the positives of having "semi-authoritarian" government. So, beach time is back on!