Practice Day in Dubai

The schedule for today:

Practice times and locations are all set by FIBA.  Our team was scheduled for a 45 minute practice at 2:15 Al Nasr Arena and a 1 1/2 hour practice at 7:30 pm at Al-Ahli Arena.  We play our first game tomorrow at the Al-Ahli Arena so it was good to get in a great practice there today.

And during the day while the TEAM USA watches film, has a practice, eats lunch and relaxes the traveling women of the group set out to explore Dubai!  We hired a driver and had a fantastic overview of Dubai that last about 6 hours!  We made it back to the hotel in time to go to the evening practice.

The Dubai Creek
We crossed the "creek" on a six lane floating bridge

Dubai Museum
Exhibits are housed in this 1799 Al-Fahidi Fort which
traces Dubai's development from a modest desert settlement
to a global center of commerce, finance and tourism.

The Al-Fahidi Fort

Front gates to the palace of Dubai's king.

One of the many mosque that we past on our tour.

Dubai's most iconic hotel - the Burj al-Arab
We are NOT staying there!

Jumeirah Beach Park - a beautiful stretch of coast!

Toes in the Persian Gulf!

Our touring USA group

the Burj al-Arab

Dubai Aquarium at the Dubai Mall
The world's largest shopping center!

The Atlantis Hotel, crowing the massive Palm

The Palm was created using land reclamation 

into small islands to form a palm tree.

The world's tallest building is the
 2,722 ft tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
 Opened on January 4, 2010.

The Burj Khalifa at night

Dubai Fountain against the Burj Khalifa
with dancing fountain shows at night.