Dubai was awesome. Really modern city with construction everywhere. High temperature of the trip – 115 degrees the second day that we were there (easily beats out 106 in Morocco). The Persian Gulf wasn’t very refreshing at 93 degrees but the water was beautiful. The hotel pools were cooled and they felt really great. We stayed at two different hotels and luckily for the kids, both these places were right next to huge water parks and we spent every day at one of them. Denise and I are ready for a little break. Both hotels also had unbelievable breakfast brunches that we (over) indulged in. Thomas and I (Ed) went up the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. I thought the Eiffel tower was tall and this building is almost three times the height of the Eiffel Tower. Frances and I got to swim with (and ride on) a dolphin. I think the dolphin enjoyed Frances more than me. No video of that – not allowed. We just arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal and it looks like everything we were expecting. Our hotel is nice and it’s a lot cooler here (upper 70s). And raining.