I am in... ARABIA?!?!?!

So once again, I am lying with the title of this blog.

Right now, I should have arrived in Chennai, but Air Emirates had a different idea, which was to stay in Dubai for the night. So here I am!

We got in around 3am local time, which was when our flight was supposed to leave for Chennai (and when it did). We assume Christoph got on board, and hope that he managed to find Vishaka's parents ok (we emailed them and told them the situation from Paris, and we just now got confirmation that they were, indeed, expecting only Christoph in the terminal. They also made a sign for him. I hope it's not too awkward until we get there...)

But what are our plans now, you may ask? The next flight out from Dubai to Chennai is a long .. uh.. several hours from now. I have no idea what time it is here, but I know that we leave at 9pm, and right now the sun is just about to come up, so I think we have some time.

After our badly, badly desired shower and nap, we think we may take a bus tour of the city with another girl we met on the plane, in nearly the exact same situation (only she flew from chicago to paris, but other than that her schedule is the same as ours).

So I may have a few more pictures tomorrow from this city. But right now, this is what I've got:

















and:


are what our hotel room looks like. Look at that kitchen!!!! It's the biggest one i've ever seen, much less in a hotel room!

and this is the view out of our kitchen window.

I am going to bed now. For a little! Then... onwards! again!

My writing style and posting prowess suffers with 24 solid hours of travel, with at least a good 3 of those waiting in stupid long lines.

More later.