Snow in the desert

Because of strange flight arrangements and connections (we'll spare you the details ) we had a 29 hour layover in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The richest city in the world. Basically we walked around and saw what a city with too much money can do.

This is an indoor ski hill. It was even validated by a real live Santa.


This is the Burj Dubai. At roughly a half a mile high, it's the tallest building in the world. (Mark you would really appreciate this :) )
Even though you can't tell, the buildings next to it are actually huge also!














Here's Mr. Koslowsky in front of what would fit into a picture of the Burj.
Despite Stuart's insistence that we really should be allowed to go to the top, the security guards thought it was best to refuse us entrance at all.













And here's Haylie's most favored stop in Dubai. A basket full of $500 worth of
CHOCOLATE.

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We had a great day. Here's how it started.



We opened some pretty interesting presents from our Thai students. Stu will be sunbathing with this towel very soon!










Haylie's sporting her beautiful new scarf!









Later in the evening, we took our Christmas spirit to the streets of Bangkok and introduced caroling to Thailand.