More Visitors and the Dubai Tennis Tournament

The New Year has brought a flux of visitors through our doors. Our friends (Elizabeth and Andy) just left following a one week stay in Dubai. I think that they were both equally impressed with different facets of what Dubai has to offer. Elizabeth really liked the beach, sun, and warm weather, while Andy was thrilled to take in all of the sights.

Every time that a new person visits Dubai, Jaclyn and I seem to discover a new place to go or a new thing to do. With our most recent visitors, we went to The OBSERVatory. It is a restaurant/lounge/bar on the 52nd floor of a building that overlooks the Palm Island. Best of all, from 6-8pm, the drinks and snacks are 50% off. Check out the pictures (it's hard to see the palm in the pictures).

Here are some other photos from the last week:

Every February, many of the world’s top tennis players converge on Dubai for the Barclays Dubai Open. The women’s tournament finished last Saturday, and the men’s tournament started Monday night. My buddy (a red-headed guy named Eric who is internally referred to as ‘twin-replacement’) and I went to the opening round of the men’s tournament. Opening round tickets are only about $8, so we really couldn’t afford to not go. We got to see Novak Djokovic (world ranking #2) and Andy Murray (world #4) win their first round matches. The seats were general admission, and we found courtside seats in the 7th row.