Hello, all you fabulous students of Ms. Healey's 1st Grade!
Hope you are having a wonderful week! I have been busy working in Dubai, a large city in the country of the United Arab Emirates. This city has grown a lot in a short period of time. Since this area is mainly desert, the city planners have ample space to build. This means that the streets are very wide, with large brick sidewalks and huge plazas outside most buildings.
There is a LOT of construction going on! There are cranes and heavy equipment all over the place:
That building in the distance is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world! On a walk, I decided to take a look.
It is 163 floors high, plus it has a large spire at the top, full of communication antennas and equipment. The tower is 830 meters high: that's more than double the height of the Empire State Building in New York City!
I was very happy to be seeing this amazing building!
Later on in the evening, I took an elevator ride up to the 148th floor observation deck. Actually, it was two elevator rides; in total, the tower is served by fifty-seven elevators!
This picture is from the open-air observation deck. I could hear and feel the wind up there. I could also feel the slight swaying of the building; the upper levels can sway up to 1/2 a meter in high wind conditions. But it's all perfectly safe, as the building was designed to accommodate this movement.
Looking down on the city of Dubai.
And there it is, lit up beautifully at night!
Hope you are all doing well; be back in Maine soon!
Ryan
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