Where we live.

So, on Friday, we will have been in our apartment for 3 weeks! It took a little while, but it is finally starting to feel like home (sans any of our own personal possessions and my large collection of kitchen gadgets).

Our apartment is in a high-rise building called "8 Boulevard Walk" located in the Downtown Burj Dubai area of town. The building is only about a year old, and so for once it is actually really nice to live in a brand new apartment with all new appliances, etc. We live on the 4th Floor, which coincidentally, while being the 'garden level' is also the level with the pool, gym, and game room. Kind of convenient to walk down the hall and be at a beautiful new infinity pool. Also, free really nice gym use is awesome. Plus, most people here don't really believe in exercise (Arabs are kind of fat, but you can't really blame them, they seem to love Krispy Kreme and only go to DD for the Donuts [which they eat with a fork and knife] and not coffee), so the brand new gym equipment is always totally open.

Since we are in the Downtown Burj Dubai area, we have a view of the Burj Dubai (World's Tallest Building) from our garden, and are also about a 10-15 minute walk from the Burj and new Dubai Mall which is right next door... It would be about a five minute walk, but you have to take the most round-about way possible because of the construction site surrounding our building. The roads here are actually pretty terribly designed/laid out, which is just another example of the bass-ackwards way in which this city has been planned... Let's build the 7-Star Hotel first, we'll worry about the sewage, roads, and transportation much much later. You can also see the Dubai Fountain (World's Largest Fountain) while in our pool, so actually quite awesome.

The apartment came furnished, which saved us loads of time and money, and so now I am just trying to buy a few small things and add a few touches to make it feel more home-y and like ours. I definitely like it though and now we're ready for visitors!! [Insert more overt hints that I want someone to visit me soon, here] :)