The Gold Souks

Monday morning following breakfast, we took the metro to Deira City Mall, just to look around. Came back to the hotel about 3:00 to charge batteries (no, not the cameras' batteries, our batteries, ha) and then the plan was that we would find our way to the Gold Souks, an outstanding item on our list of things to do. We had not used the busses up till now as it was a little hard to figure out the schedules/routes; however, with help from the hotel staff, we learned that we could take bus 31 which goes directly to the Gold Souks. This, we did, and we could use our NOI cards on the bus. Good heavens, the Gold Souks are jewellery stores upon jewellery stores upon jewellery stores, selling, you guessed it, gold jewellery. We had fun window shopping and shop owners were all over you, trying to get you to come into their store. We spent several hours there as that's how long it took to see everything. We then found out what bus we should take to get us back to our part of town. Using the busses was fun and we're sorry we hadn't introduced ourselves to them earlier; however, as it was, our days/nights were full and there really wasn't time. Once back in our area, we went out for a late supper (9:30) and sat outside and watched all the action. It's now 11:00, Dad is snoring already and I'm falling off my chair again so that's it for now.