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An Evening Retreat Everyone is now in town - an evening retreat to the desert is planned. Steph and Wolfgang are ready to Party:) |
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Dunes and Shadows After a wild drive through the desert, we arrive at softly back-lit dunes and tents. |
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Mystery Abounds Shadows lead to Shadows.... |
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Tents in the night The party gathers around the fire... |
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Dinner and Dancing In the sand and carpets... |
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The Crew Works Hard Posing before the mad rush... |
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BarB's Steaks to Lobster to Shrimp to LambChops....and more.... |
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And Dancing and the dancing begins.... |
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Riders in the Flames Its contageous... |
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..... We're not in Kansas anymore.... |
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Kim and Our Host lost in the crowd ... |
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And Lunch in the Desert for the riders....keep the weigh on... |
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hmmm... its really pretty delux on the trail... |
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A Temporary Oasis built for the afternoon. |
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Regal Dining its really hard not to over eat.... |
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And its so elegant too... in the middle of the desert no less... |
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.... what can be said??? |
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Local Craftmanship Keeping with the local color |
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A sampler a wide variety of goodies!!! |
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The master the keeper of the "hubbly-bubbly" tent |
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riders in repose after dining a bit of relaxation:) |
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Cruising the Streets While Destry finds the Skate Boarders (the MiddleEast Championships are underway at the Dubai Extreme...) |
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Unexpected well MAYBE he'll be able to break free to crew on ride day!!! |
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A duplicate well he REALLY is excited.... |
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Lights on the River Dubai Creek at night.... |
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Back to the Ride Riders in Preparation ... the day before vet in... |
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Vetting In All the US riders are in:) |
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Watching and Waiting Its that time of the day ... checking things out. |
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The Vet Area Organized well and layed out for ease of access. |
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Dr. Ray at work Its fun to see everyone at work and focused:) |
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Trotting Out The trot-out lanes are firm sand. it'll be a long day:) |
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Wolfgang on Patrol He's a groom and a photographer. Hopefully he'll share his photos!!! |
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And... He's photogenic too:) |
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Vonita Watching and Learning - the FEI pro!! |
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Art and Sue Hurry up and Wait!@!!! |
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John and Steph We're ready and Kruschev has trotted out just fine - looked great in fact!! |
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We're Ready The lights are sparkling. |
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Tomorrow the Fireworks Really these were two nights ago on Dubai Creek ... but hey:) |
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Relaxed A stroll up the creek. |
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The Dubai Vet Hospital Dr. Jim Baldwin gave us a brief tour of the Dubai Vet Hospital. Its pretty state-of-the-art... |
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Ok, we'll pose... But really, its the hospital which is the focus!! |
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Janet and ??? in the reception area.... |
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Overlooking one of the Surgeries looking down into one of the surgical areas. There are two of them, both visible and fully monitored from a single control facilty. |
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Stabling and Isolation Wings Fully facilities are available with 18 vets on staff. |
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Barns and Pens Kept on imaculate grounds... |
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Live-in Training Rotations of trainees from various countries live on the grounds. |
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The Vet Van Oh yeh, its a truck...:) |