Today we went out to lunch at the Hard Rock Dubai, nextdoor to the university. Had a bit of a surprise when we went in - the entire floor was covered in little styrofoam pellets - fake snow!
Talk about things you'd never see in the States! First off, we had to walk upstairs on these slippery little spheres to the non-smoking section (which in itself is a joke, if health laws don't exist in Dubai the laws of physics still do, thus smoke still rises, making the non-smoking section smokier than the smoking section ... but I digress). Second the staff was having fun playing in the snow throwing it around. Where people are eating. Now, I don't know what kind of Department of Health exists in Dubai, but you'd think that having this stuff in an dining establishment is breaking some rule somewhere. You'd think. I mean, how do they clean? What happens if some child drops a burger into the fake snow ... I mean, they just can't sweep it up ... ewww.
But anyway, it was actually still kind of fun to have some snow in Dubai. I mean, other than the Ski Dubai kind.
