The Shopping Excursion

What trip to Dubai is complete without a shopping excursion? Well you don’t have to answer that, after all it’s a rhetorical question (if I got the correct figure of speech, or am I still figuring the speech).

So as your trip draws to a close (which also means the end of a vacation), it’s time to go on a shopping spree with all the money you have managed to put aside, ok you managed to save because your food and accommodations are taken care by your sibling (advantage of having siblings on foreign shores). 

You make a list of things you need to shop, gifts you need to take with you, after all you can’t go empty-handed and you have friends and relatives who you need to get things for. To make a list, and delete the list. You add and subtract, hoping not to miss out on anything, or anyone. You try figure out what you want to get. 

So you go from shop to shop, trying to figure out what you want to get. Then you you try to figure out if you got the right size, half tempted to call the person for whom you are purchasing it for, asking them for their size. And when you find something good, you do a mental conversion (that coming from a person who is not good with maths, you do the maths), trying to figure out if you are getting a bargain (thank god for sales). In spite of it all, you still want to go to the next shop to see if you are getting something better. And when you find something, you can’t make up your mind if you want to pick that up or pick something else (the story of a confused mind).

So you end up going from store to store, from mall to mall, navigating through the traffic, dozing off in the car (not something new), trying to find the things on your list, things you need to pick up, things you may not need, ticking off item by item, not wanting to miss anything of the list, not wanting to miss anyone of your list. Wanting to get a small piece of Dubai back with you, for the people you care.

So when you finally ticked off all the items off your list, your breathe a sigh of relief.  Somehow you feel elated, you managed to get things off your list and some more. You feel lighter but then your bag feels heavy, but then that’s ok since you are under weight literally and figuratively. Unless you count the holiday weight you put on. Ok when did it change from baggage weight to personal weight. But then you’re happy you managed to shop. 

So there you had it, you did the one thing that all come to Dubai for... shop, shop, shop, till you drop, your very own shopping excursion.