Hope everyone's enjoying their holidays! Here are some more shots of our trip out to the desert in Dubai - we even managed to get super close to some camels! It was a little scary actually. I hear they spit.

Here I'm wearing a dress from our line, Haute Heritage, and it's available by request.

Enjoy!
xoxo

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all are enjoying your holiday season.

While on our recent visit to Abu Dhabi, we also visited the gorgeous Yas Hotel for brunch. Fantastically modern, you may recognize it as the venue for this year's Formula One races. It's the first hotel in the world to be built over an F1 race circuit and marina. It's even more gorgeous when its LED system is lit up at night in changing colors from purple to red. Check out the photos from our visit below!

Also during our visit to Dubai, we got a chance to do some dune-bashing on a desert safari. Basically dune-bashing is getting in an SUV truck (like a Land Rover or 4Runner) and taking it up and down the sand dunes at high speeds. Sometimes it's scary because you actually feel like the car will topple over and you'll end up rolling down the dunes. But thankfully that didn't happen here :)

Once we made it to the top of a large dune, we got out of the trucks to enjoy the sunset and even managed to get in a little sand-boarding. I got behind the camera this time and took a few shots of everyone and the beautiful scenes around us.

Enjoy the pics!
xoxo

The Grand Mosque is one of the greatest architectural wonders of Abu Dhabi. Built in 2007, it holds the record of the 8th largest mosque in the world and boasts being made of marble stone, gold, and semi-precious stones. Inspired by Mughal and Moorish architecture, one instantly recognizes the dome layout and floorplan similarity to the Badhshahi Mosque in Lahore, while the archways are easily reminiscent of the Alhambra Mosque in Granada.

We took a day trip to visit the mosque during our recent trip to Dubai. You can take a look at the pics below! 

Hey everyone! Stop one on our Mid East/South Asia trip was Dubai, where we visited my sis. There, we went out to the desert for a dune buggy excursion one day. The desert is absolutely beautiful - vast and seemingly endless, with delightful clusters of roaming camels along the way.

But dune buggying was an experience I wasn't expecting. I thought it would be pretty harmless - like go-karting, but that it really wasn't. The dunes are deceptively steep and the terrain rougher than you think. It felt like I was going to wipe out a few times (I lost control and was suspended mid-air more than once) but I still managed to hold it down. My brother wasn't so lucky - he crashed his dune buggy twice and received a pretty bad gash on his hand. But it was still a lot of fun racing each other up and down the dunes! I'd recommend it to anyone who can handle a car pretty decently and wouldn't mind getting roughed up a little ;) 
 

Look at them go

Smiling and celebrating that we made it in one piece!