March 14

We spent this day in the air. We had decent seats on the flight from New York to Dubai. There were 4 seats in the middle and we had 3 of them. The guys at the check in counter did that for us since we offered to give up our seats if needed. In Dubai, we had about 6 hours until our flight to Male. We ate dinner – Mark had Dairy Queen, I had McDonald’s. Then we walked around and got a few things from the duty free shops. Then we went down near to where our gate would be, and Mark sat and read and did some things on the computer. Mark let me lie down on the blanket we brought with us and sleep for almost 3 hours. Our plane did not leave Dubai until 2:20 in the morning.