What a day!

We are in the middle of Ramadan here in the UAE which means that nothing much is open during the day while everyone is fasting - especially in Sharjah. We have had to go into Dubai if we want to go shopping any day before 7pm. So this past Saturday a few of us decided that we had had enough of shoppings malls (I know, I can't believe I just said that myself!) and planned to become more cultured by visiting a museum.

Sharjah's claim to fame is the many many many museums it has here - they are well-known throughout the Emirates as the best museums over here. But alas, they were all closed for Ramadan. So off we headed to Dubai Museum. It located in Al Fahidi Fort, the oldest building in Dubai, which sounded promising.

Here are a few photos:

Yep, they are all outside photos, because, turns out.....Dubai Museum was closed for Ramadan too! We were not happy campers sweltering outside in the heat!

...and this is the only chair in the shade we could find...

This did cheer me up a little as I kept expecting Aladdin to come running over the top any minute.

We finally found the Coin Museum, which must be so popular that they couldn't possibly close during Ramadan...thrilling stuff!

At least each little room was air-conditioned. We also thought we could use it as an opportunity to drink from our water bottles (which is illegal during Ramadan) until we realised a guard was watching us from cameras in every room.

Libby was not impressed.

Larissa was chirpy for now - it wore off later in the day!

We didn't last long at the museum before heading off to .....what else? An air-conditioned shopping mall!