McGuigans To Reunite

It has been over 160 years since two brothers, Henry and James McGuigan left their beloved family and home in Ireland for an incredible adventure searching for gold in the far distant land of Australia. I am travelling from Australia to our ancestral homeland to meet McGuigan relations living in and around Maghera Northern Ireland. Our McGuigan family has lived in this area since the 1700's and possibly even earlier. This historic journey back to Ireland with its majestic scenery, inspiring people and history promises to be filled with excitement and amazing discoveries culminating in the gathering of the clan at Maghera on Sunday 22nd July 2012 for a day of joyous celebration. My much anticipated adventure begins on Friday 29th June 2012......

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Day 32 Dubai United Arab Emirates Wednesday 1st August 2012

After 31 days of travel without a problem finally a major one. My flight from London to Dubai on the A380 was delayed by 3 hours which meant I would miss my connecting flight to Perth:(

We arrived into Dubai at 3.30am in the morning and I was advised that I would have to stay the day and catch the next flight to Perth which was at 2.55 am the following morning. Lucky for me I managed to secure the last seat on that flight and everyone else going to Perth had to go to Singapore then onto Perth from there. Emirates arranged for me to be taken to the hotel and gave me meal vouchers for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I finally arrived at the hotel at 6.30am and was feeling so tired and disappointed as I really wanted to go home by this stage. I went to bed and woke up at 1.30pm so decided I would wake myself up with a shower and go shopping in Dubai seeing as I would never probably have the opportunity again.

It was almost 50 degrees celsius so I got a taxi to take me to the Dubai Mall which apparently is the best for shopping. WOW - what an amazing shopping mall as it had over 1200 shops! It opens at 9.00 am and closes at 1.00am in the morning and I said a prayer of thanks that I was not a worker in that place with such long, long hours. This place was enormous and I stayed there 7 hours walking around shopping and I reckon I still only saw half of it.

What an amazing waterfall within the Dubai Shopping Mall

Ice skating in the Dubai Shopping Mall

Massive Aquarium in the Dubai Shopping Mall

Taxis available to hire in the Dubai Shopping Mall  

It had it's own ice skating rink, incredible aquarium, movie theatres and so much more. They had these cute little indoor taxis that you could hire to get around in which I found fascinating - maybe I should have hired one to see it all.

I arrived back at the hotel about 9pm, packed my luggage AGAIN and went to the airport about 11.30pm. I was waiting at the departure gate early as I was more than ready to finally get on that plane bound for Perth and my boys. Hopefully it would be on time with NO more delays.

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