It happened to me the last time I was in Cairo. It took me thirty minutes to extract myself from the maze of store levels and elevators to find the right exit that I was expected to be at an hour ago.
Today could have been a repeat. Our uber-cool boss told us that he wanted to treat us to a day in Dubai (on a workday) and told the two of us to get lost, have fun and explore. So together with my colleague I headed to Dubai, a fascinating modern city filled to the brim with luxury and heaps of more luxury topped off with even more deluxe folks. I swear the people that live here must eat gilded cornflakes for breakfast or something.
Whilst puttering around Ikea my colleague had the intelligence to keep tabs on my whereabouts with a cellphone so she would not lose me to a couch in one of showcase living rooms. She was the experienced field guide and from then on I held onto her for dear life: We were about to enter the infamous Dubai Mall.
Imagine a monstrous construction containing over 1200 stores, an enormous aquarium, cinemas and lord knows what else lurking in there.
I got lost. But not for very long for my kick-ass colleague took me to the aquarium where I almost kidnapped the cutest two baby eagle rays that kept playfully dipping their little heads out of the water and staring straight up into my eyes and I fell in love with them and I then saw my first Pineapple fish but no glow and I now also suffer from acute all-five-of-'em sensory overload after spending a day in a mall-scape that seems to go on forever and ever. Wow.
Seeing all the crazy buildings of Dubai made me marvel at the ingenious way that humans change a landscape irrevocably and become a breathing and living part of it.
It sure is nice to be back home again.
And not getting lost on my way to the little ladies' room.
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