This morning Jay had his half day business session to attend. We met for breakfast in a really cool room at the hotel called The Music Room, its like a tiered lounge with tables and red velvet banks of lounge booths. We had breakfast in there at tables set up on the highest tiers and then as the advisors moved down to the couches for their session the spouses ducked out to the pool.
Actually several times during the blog I can insert the same photo over again:
I spent a couple of hours like this before Jay arrived to meet me for lunch. I actually spent the whole time chatting with Lorna and learning more about her, then Mark and Jay came down and we decided to grab a quick lunch and then take the shuttle to the Dubai Mall to do some shopping.
The Dubai Mall is insane. It has areas for everything, so we walked in and we were in the jewelery section and you see a Cartier on one corner, a Rolex on the other, a Chopard on the next - complete craziness. Then, the rest of the mall is laid out in sections and subsections and zones. So the menswear is all in one place, the ladieswear, etc. The problem with this is that it is so huge you spend a lot of time looking at the mall and not for stuff in the mall! I wanted a swim suit and a nice cover up - we never even saw a women's store - Jay got 3 shirts and a pair of shoes in the most ridiculous shoe market you have ever seen! This is a shoe display...note the one pair of shoes.
Further in the mall there was an ice skating rink, a huge aquarium (I don't like the photos because the store in front of the enormous aquarium is a candy store and all you can see reflected in the aquarium are the lights). This aquarium was at least 2 storeys high through the mall and 50 yards long, it was massive. You could also pay to go into the aquarium and underwater zoo and walk through the aquarium tunnel, but we just saw this display from the mall concourse and kept shopping.
Then there was a really cool waterfall with bronze sculpted divers that were scaled to the size of a man. Very cool.
Once we were done at the mall we took the shuttle back to the hotel and got changed to go out to dinner. We had dinner on a ship on the creek. The walls and ceiling of the boat were made of glass and it launched and we went down the creek for an hour and then came back. The whole time on the boat we sat and ate dinner and when it stopped we got off..a neat restaurant concept, but everything we do as an event is at least 30 - 40 minutes from the hotel. It takes 20 minutes just to get off the palm!
When we came back to the hotel we all met in the Voda Bar and they announced that this Pinnacle Conference in 2 years will be in ....
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