UAE - Dubai, Global Village, Dubai Tennis Championship

The next few pictures are of Global Village, an annual event in Dubai. Businessmen from countries all over the world set up a mini market full of stalls with goods from their nation. They also have cultural things floating about.. I thought it was good.. but many people didnt think this years Village was too great.





It's pretty huge.. We spent a few hours walking around, and it wasn't enough to see everything..





In some countries I noticed that they had some stalls with people and goods from other countries.







My mom got in the way of this shot..



My nephew Ali and I in the Yemeni zone.. I hope u don't mind Ali!!









Some traditional dancing..



I think these two were outside of the South Africa zone.. Oh.. I won a bag full of brochures, a deck of Titanic cards (with scenes from the movie on each card), and a small South African canvas painting thing.. All I had to do was answer some questions to a guy with a mic.. "How are you?".. "Where are you from?" .. "Have you spent a lot of money?" .. "Thank you, here you go..".

The Canadian zone only had a few stalls.. but they had the best music.

Anywhoo.. the next few pictures are from the Dubai Tennis Championship. This year they had some big players like Agassi, Federer, Williams, and some others I can't remember.



I don't remember who these people were..



This was the semi-final match between Serena Williams and Jelena Jankovic. Jankovic was playing really well!! Serena lost the first set 6-0!! She got really upset halfway through and broke her tennis raquet in half.. She made it look so effortless!! Don't upset that woman!! She forfeited in the second set with an injury..

Jankovic liked to pull out over ripe bananas from the freezer down there..







I think these two were the no.1 ranked womens doubles team.. They played really well.. and were smiling the whole time.. even when they were losing. They ended up winning..



I never knew one had to go down this low in tennis!