Our Dubai Vacation

By Alta Fairbourne

 Let me say that Dubai reminds me of home. With skyscrapers as tall as Paul Bunyan and the same old restaurants like Subway, Mc Donald's , KFC, Wendy's, Pizza Hut etc. We were in heaven as we spent every little second at the biggest mall in the world it had every store you could think of including the biggest toy store in the world, a ice rink, indoor amusement park, Movie theater, A little kids place were you go through lessons to do what you want to do when your older and its called  Kidzania and its really big and expensive look it up.There is also another mall we went to that wasn't as big but it was still huge and it had a indoor ski hill.  This is were we went. It was super awesome because me and Everett got one piece ski suits. We all got on our matching ski equipment and hit the slopes (bunny hill). It was colder in there than we thought, and really slow ski lifts to the top.

Then we would skied down in three seconds. We didn't have gloves so our fingers felt like there were going to fall off. After a couple dozen runs our time was up and we had to leave. Right after we went to Shake Shack. The best food ever!  We all had super fun skiing and eating.  As we headed back to hotel,  my dad couldn't seem to get home. The roads kept sucking us back onto the freeway.  It felt as if it was taking hours,  even though we were so very close. Well, anyway, our hotel was called the Al Barsha Hotel Apartments and our hotel room was huge. It had a living room with a black couch a TV, and a coffee table with three lamp posts around it. Next to the living room was a dining table and the kitchen. The kitchen had a big fridge and a microwave also a oven and cupboards full of cups spoons plates etc. Next to the kitchen was a washing machine. That followed up to our rooms which both had a bathroom with a shower. The next day we decided not to go to the mall but to go to Atlantis. It is one of the biggest water parks ever. It was so super duper fun! Where we went on pitch black dark water slides down into a shark tank to super steep rides that you barely touched the slide. But I thought that the family rides were the best.  We headed up to the top not knowing what was ahead.  We all got in the huge tube which soon started down the slide with drop offs twists and turns and it seemed like the tube could easily go off track and we could all die. In the end all of us were laughing and smiling and saying, "let's go again!" but Little Everett was crying saying, "no way! too scary!"  We ended up going on the other family ride, that was way more scary. I was going backwards; I didn't know we were going to drop as we got closer the drop I started to scream, "turn me around! help! help! help!" My life flashed before my eyes as we dropped super fast and then went up the slope and back down it ended up so fun. But little Everett was crying saying, "way too scary!" but then we went again on both of them and this time Everett didn't cry. After that we split up, my mom and dad went on a ride we were to small for and we went on a different ride. My mom and dad didn't know what it was like as they stepped on a glass circle and a dome closed around them. Someone's voice said, "one. two. three." and the glass fell away from their feet and they dropped into the slide, shooting them up and up and up and then they went down and down and down. After that, my mom and dad were pooped as they went to get their clothes on and we went on more rides. We soon left and we went home taking us a half an hour due to my dads expert driving skills, if you know what I mean.
The next day we drove really far and went to church then we went to a park and rented a four person bike  (we managed to fit 5) and road along the boardwalk. Then we went to a big Mosque.The next day we went ice skating and saw a really cool fountain show. The we got on a long airplane home back to the old Kenya then I realized Dubai is the complete opposite of Kenya.