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Desert Dreams & City Lights: My U.A.E. Winter Escape ✨๐ŸŒ†๐Ÿœ️

U.A.E WINTER 2024, DECEMBER 20-29 Introduction This entire e-journal is about my trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the winter of 2024. I left on 20th December and returned to Chennai on the 29th. ✈️๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒ December 20 Chennai Int. Airport (departure), 20th morning: My parents, Anand and Arti, had already left two days earlier, so I had to travel with the Gulati Family ๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐Ÿ‘ฆ. At the check-in counter, Rohan, the dad, Deepali, the mom, and Krishiv, the son, were all giving their baggage along with mine ๐Ÿงณ when the female at the counter saw my passport and asked “who is Anand?”. Rohan said “he is Aisha’s father and had left earlier for work.” The female said “she needs a parent to travel internationally.” After a long conversation with the main person of Emirates Airlines in India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ, along with messages going back and forth from MAA to DXB ✈️, they finally let me go. We ran for immigration ๐Ÿ›‚ and security ๐Ÿ›ƒ, and about 20 minutes before boarding, we ate Dosas at A2B ๐Ÿฝ️๐Ÿ›. Dubai, ...