Day 7 – Proposal efforts

I spent today working with folks sent to the region to work on proposals.  Meeting with local staff I quickly realized they had no direction.  We spent the day to understand the proposal requirements who is doing what – and thank God we received a 21 day extension.  The reinforcements are coming.

Later in the day I was invited to dinner in Old Dubai with a friend.  We met at the Arabian Courtyard and took a quick walk through the Souk, looked at Dubai Creek and returned to the restaurant for a feeding frenzy of some of the best Indian food I’ve ever had.  I’m typically not a fan of the food, but this place does it right, complete with musical entertainment by a sitar player, replaced by a larger group of musicians, female singers and dancers.  The voices were incredible and you would think they were singing through some sort of synthesizer.  I didn’t understand the words, but the music was great.

I'll post some pictures on this blog in the near future.