Only in Dubai...

Last night we went to dinner at a restaurant overlooking the Dubai Ice Rink, in the Dubai Mall. There is nothing particularly out of the ordinary about that. However, for the day on Friday they had turned the ice rink into a go-cart track and were holding go-cart races on ice. So completely random and completely Dubai. I've been to plenty of ice rinks in my life, but never before have I seen one used for this purpose. Go-cart racing on ice is something that would absolutely never occur to me. But, in Dubai, the place of superlatives, of course they would race go-carts on ice. Next it will be indoor skydiving. Oh wait, they have that here now too at the newly opened mall Mirdif City Centre. Oh Dubai, you never cease to amaze me.

I do have to admit though that dinner was made just that much more interesting watching Arabs who have undoubtedly never heard of or been in go-carts before, attempting to go as fast as possible in them around an ice track... It almost looked fun enough to give it a try ourselves...