Dune bashing!!

On Thursday morning we went into the desert at 4 AM....

Mr. B is an awesome off-road driver, so he took a bunch of us girls from the youth group, and a few other families followed in their SUVs. (Oh, it's so funny.....I haven't met anyone here yet who doesn't have an SUV, particularly a Land Cruiser. All down our compound, every single person has one parked in their spot.)
We drove to the desert outside of Dubai...about an hour. We went on a few dunes, and then stopped to make pancakes and let air out of the tires.

The other two cars got stuck and we had to tow them out. We had ten people in ours! It was crazy....it's fun sitting in the very back because you can feel every thing. Oh, and there are no seatbelts most of the time....


We didn't do any jumps, but it was such fun!!! Better than a roller coaster. Going and down the dunes, and speeding to the top and sharply turning down the same way. Mr. B said I was a fun passenger because I screamed so much ^_^

My friend Lisa drove us for awhile, and she was quite good as well.
We climbed Camel Rock, a gargantuan dune with rocks and caves on top.

By nine we packed up and drove away, as the heat begins to grow unbearable at that time.

All the way home we played Five Iron Frenzy, Hillsong, and Johnny Cash, and sang....

Instead of taking all that time to try and get pictures working, I'll just paste the links in here.

All of us girls

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Inside the LC

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Camels on the way home!!

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Sunrise from camel rock

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LCs below

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Climbing

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Ride home

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Dune ridge

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Desert
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Footprints

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Yesterday after church we went to Ibn Batutta mall for lunch. It has many courts, and each is desgined (inside and out) like a different country. There is Tunisia, Egypt, Persia, Andalusia, and China. It's beautiful!

love, me