Our last day in the city! We grabbed a quick workout in the morning in the apartment building before packing up and heading to the Dubai Mall yet again. This time it was to store our luggage so we could explore a couple more things in the city before our late night flight to South Korea. Once we finally found the luggage concierge, we grabbed a quick bite and some coffee before we were off to the metro. The metro system in Dubai is incredible and so clean! There’s no eating and drinking allowed (or you pay a fine) and there is a separate car for women and children. We learned this earlier in the week as Grant and I boarded it one day. Thankfully a nice lady told him he should move to the next car before he gets fined 100 Durham. There were two other guys in the car as well that eventually made their way to where we were.

We did our first stop at the Museum of the Future to get some pictures of the outside of the building. We initially were going to go through it, but we read some reviews that said it wasn’t worth the money. And thankfully we decided to skip as the line was long to get in. We grabbed some photos of the building and made a quick pit stop at the bathroom before getting back on the Metro to see the Dubai Frame. 

Of course the day we decided to do a bunch of walking around the city, it’s the hottest it’s been all week. The walk to the frame was about 15 minutes from the metro station with little shade. Our plan initially was to just take pictures of the frame, but since the entry fee was cheap, we decided it was worth it to get into some AC. And I’m glad we did! It was a neat experience to walk through and go across the top of the frame. It offered a great view of the Burj Khalifa along with the city of Dubai. We didn’t realize how big the city actually was until we saw it from that view! They also had a glass walkway that would become opaque before clearing to offer a view below. It is still kind of eerie to walk across stuff like that as it gives you a sense you might fall through it!

Then it was back to the Dubai Mall to grab our bags and head off to the airport. Our Abu Dhabi guide told us it was faster to take the metro since we would just be sitting in traffic for most of the drive in a taxi. I was not looking forward to this as we had experienced rush hour on metro the other day and adding on our big backpacks would just add to the body-to-body crowd. There were a couple of claustrophobic moments but thankfully the crowd died down the closer we got to the airport.

Our flight to Qatar was another quick one (once they finally realized a couple passengers never actually checked in). Since we had about two hours to burn while waiting for our flight to Seoul, we explored the airport a little bit. Tim had told us previously that there was a rainforest in the airport so Grant wanted to go check it out. I initially wanted to head to the FIFA store for my nephew so wasn’t too thrilled about going to see some rainforest. And I may have gotten the “How often are we here? Can we just enjoy this for a minute” comment from Grant… But I will say it was cool to see. It was small and had rainforest sounds playing in the background.

Our next stop in the airport was the FIFA store as we had seen they were having a huge sale during our first layover. I called our FIFA-fan nephew Connor since he was just out of school at the time (since it was around 11pm in Qatar) to show him what the store had. We grabbed a couple souvenirs and headed to experience the first class lounge that came with our business class tickets. We enjoyed a couple drinks and before we knew it, it was time to head to our gate and head off to South Korea!