The Mall of the Emirates

I would be remiss if I did not post a diary about the MOE since it has, for better or worse, played such a large role in our daily life here so far. Beth and I remarked yesterday, as we were tugged by some unknown force through the threshold of yet another clothes store, that they really know how to sell things here. They have marketing down to a degree of perfection that I only wish they had applied to their mastery of street planning. But the mall provides a cool respite from the overbearing heat and sun of the outside. You can always find a parking spot and the rows have numbers that are wired to the individual spaces telling you how many are open in any given aisle. The walk is short and not too hot to the sliding doors where you can start to feel the coolth from a distance of about 20 feet. The mall is the town center. It is where everything happens in Al Barsha (our neighborhood), and certain people make it their destination from all over the city. It contains as many restaurants as a medium size American city. It has more and better stores than you can find in pretty much all of New York City. And of course it has a ski slope. So below are some photographs of the mall preceded by a simple interactive map that if you click HERE you can make larger on its own page.











The shopping cart ramps are everywhere in Dubai. They are pretty great. The carts have magnets on the wheels that keep them from rolling once they hit the “rampscalator”.