Made it

After a 2 hour wait in the plane on the ground in Brussels, we finally took off way behind schedule to London's Heathrow Airport. Another hour waiting on the tarmac until we were able to disembark, pretty much assured the 4 of us that we were going to miss our connecting flight to Dubai. After 2 more hours in line-ups and taxis, we arrived at Heathrow's Radisson Hotel for a night stay, on British Airlines expense none the less.

We checked in at around midnight, and by 4 in the morning, we managed to find nearly all the other disgruntled BA passengers who've been put up for the night in the hotel because of their missed connections as well.

One lady will now miss her best friends wedding, another girl will miss 2 days on her 5 day vacation to Singapore, and for us, well for us it means that we arrive, now arrived, at 8am on Sunday morning - the beginning of the work week here in the Emirates. Great.

But we are here, and we have started our project. By 3pm we found ourselves in an Exposition on the Project Developments that are going on now here in Dubai. I found myself shaking hands and exchanging business cards with Millioneers, if not Billioners, while media cameras were snapping away. Fuck off these Sheikhs have gone mad. It's truly amazing what they are doing, and one of my next posts will be focused on the crazy things they are building and planning to build here.

But now I am dead tired, and I need my sleep.