Christmas in Dubai

Christmas in Dubai??? so my husband and I spent xmas in Dubai last year and also two weeks of this new year. It was awesome. We arrived exhausted on the 23rd december. We didn't do much apart from checking into our hotel (Bonington Hotel in Jumeirah Lake Towers), a very gorgeous room if I do say so. We went to the Dubai Mall (huuugge mall!!!!) since we needed a forex bureau. We didn't stay long…we went with the hotel shuttle and came back with it 2 hours later. I loved the mall even though I didn't even do much window shopping. 

Christmas day itself was great. We went to the Dubai mall again and got a few things. We came back to the hotel and I was tired (still jet lagged) so I decided to just stay in the room while hubby went to the bar downstairs. I watched movies and ordered room service…had a great time. 

The next few days were spent exploring Dubai. We even ended up at a hospital since he got sick. After that we decided to extend our stay from two weeks to three. 

New years eve was the best. We went to the Rolls Royce and Bentley showrooms (nice cars). After this we went to the mall before the roads were closed in preparation for the fireworks show later. We did some shopping and followed the thousands of other fireworks watchers outside. We got in position and had a nice view of the amazing fireworks. We concentrated on the ones from the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world?). The logistics involved in getting it all to work without any destruction hmmm!!!!

I then spent our last week in different malls shopping. I was at the Dubai mall a lot (I still haven't seen the whole of the mall), I also went to the Mall of Emirates, Dubai Outlet Mall, Festival city (to visit IKEA). We also went to Abu Dhabi, which was really nice (can u say huge mosque?? nice thing to build in memory of the leader who united the emirates and started all the development we see today.) 

I bought some clothes (for myself and family), some bags (Chanel GST, Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM in citron, DKNY cross body, Burberry cross body, Michael Kors Jet Set Macbook Travel Tote and MK Miranda bag orange and black colour block), some makeup, beauty supply and some shoes. 

Dubai is a beautiful place which is very culturally heterogenous. It is a quite expensive place to shop if u ever shopped in the US but it is ok for us who live in Ghana where everything imported cost so much. I will definitely love to visit several more times (if only to see the entire Dubai Mall lol)

Here are some photos from our trip.

our room at the Bonington 

outside the Dubai Mall

the water fountain inside the Dubai Mall

moi at the water fountain (looking all pale in the foundation the girl in Makeup Forever thought was a perfect match for me…..smh)

shoe district in the Dubai Mall

is a caption really necessary???

i spent a lot of time in this store, I must admit

winter castle in the desert???xmas decor in the Dubai Mall

my favorite floor of the Mall….bags all around... 

Burj Khalifa (Tower Khalifa) at night

across from the Dubai mall

how the buildings were before Dubai went all skyscraper

at the Noodle Factory inside the mall

I was wearing a shirt dress by Poqua Poqu of Ghana, blue jeggings and loafers from Marks & Spencer 

The Souk section of the mall

Louboutin…nice store but I must admit I was not inspired!!!!

waiting for the fireworks to start

view from outside our hotel

like a postcard

Abu Dhabi

Burj and the Dubai mall our first evening in Dubai

on the metro in Dubai

view of the Burj from the Dubai mall metro station

entrance to the mall from the metro station

underwater aquarium inside the mall

my DKNY cross body that I had to get so my arms would stop hurting from carrying my burberry bag

got a new camera from Nikon..love the pictures and videos.

inside a Dubai Taxi

outside the Wafi Mall

walking to the Wafi mall from the Mediclinic hospital

a little chilly in the desert lol

nice stained glass ceiling inside the Wafi mall

part of the fireworks from the Burj Khalifa

happy New Year!!!

the label on our hotel

and a pedi

decided to get a mani

filled in my gel nails but they did not last long (anytime I use any other gel products apart from LCN, they start to chip that very day hmmm) so I went back, got it removed and got shellac polish instead

all shellaced (that red was gorgeous)

Oh la la!!!!my best day of shopping yet….Chanel GST, LV Neverfull MM in Epi and Burberry Orchard XS (I have the large Burberry orchard in dark chocolate so decided to get the extra small one as a cross body bag)

some foundation (YSL touche eclait foundation and Armani luminous silk)

haul for that day (last major haul in Dubai)