Dubai, Part Two - Atlantis

Definitely one of the highlights of our trip to Dubai was where we stayed, Atlantis, the Palm. The kids had been looking forward to going to the waterpark at Atlantis before we even arrived in Amman, and it definitely did not disappoint.

We managed to go at least for an hour or so every day, even the day we arrived and the day we left. By the time we finally flew into DBX, took a taxi from the airport to the resort (which sits at the very end/top? of the largest of the two artificial, man-made islands that looks like a palm tree when viewed from a great height or space), changed, grabbed a quick bite of lunch, it was almost 3:00. We had gotten up at 4:30 to make it to the airport in Amman on time and catch our flight, but that didn't stop the kids.

On our second day at Atlantis, we were joined by friends from Chennai who are now living in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and their two kids. We were able to sneak them into Atlantis and all take advantage of the beach together. 

Unfortunately, we don't have more photos of the kids going down the waterslides. One of the slides follows a glass tube through a shark tank so you can see sharks swimming around you as you go down the slide. 

Pete was super excited to go, but was literally two millimeters too short, and the guards wouldn't let him go. He was super-disappointed, but I encouraged him to try again the next day, hoping a sympathetic lifeguard would measure him by the size of his heart and not the size of his body. 

It worked. Pete swelled enough to make up at least one of the two millimeters he was short, and the lifeguard waved him through. He bragged about how quick of a grower he was to have grown that much in one day as we walked up the stairs to the slide.