{"id":3770,"date":"2022-11-05T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:31:29","slug":"day-2-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Day 2, Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a 13 hour flight from Washington DC to Dubai, and I was already a bit sleep deprived before we left home. Could I sleep on the plane, having splurged on business class? Not really. So I watched 3 movies and opened the shade in the night to see lights below. Israel? I don\u2019t know. But somewhere in that vicinity.
We were so tired when we arrived at our hotel. We decided on a 2 hour nap, but my body was not amused. Sleep\u2026. But we got up, had lunch, walked a block to the beach for a swim, then back to the infinity pool at our hotel. Nice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Flying over lights in the middle of the night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The beach by our hotel. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Dubai marina. Our Sofitel was between the beach and the marina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barbecue dinner, outside seating on the walk. Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our hotel was on the Walk, with infinity pool extending over the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a 13 hour flight from Washington DC to Dubai, and I was already a bit sleep deprived before we left home. Could I sleep on the plane, having splurged on business class? Not really. So I watched 3 movies and opened the shade in the night to see lights below. Israel? I don\u2019t … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","explorer-thumbnail-icon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5p6Ax-YO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}