Teaching Adventure to the UAE: Winner, winner, seafood dinner

One thing I've learned since being here is that there are Facebook groups for everything! I'm in a group on facebook called Best Bites of Abu Dhabi. This group is dedicated to people who like good food. Members of this group ask for recommendations for ladies nights, places to eat, places for takeout, and so much more. There are also various competitions that the admins of the groups will post too. I enter many of the competitions not thinking that I'll ever win. Well, my thinking was wrong! I won dinner for 2 at Al Ain Aloft's Thursday Seafood Feast.

Al Ain is about an hour and a half from Abu Dhabi. It is actually one of the cities we could have been placed. So, Mike and I decided to make a weekend trip of going to Al Ain to enjoy the Seafood Feast.

The scenery going to Al Ain was a reminder that we actually lived in the desert. Because I was driving and because my riding partner slept the entire ride 😏😒😂I couldn't get pictures of the camels just hanging out. I did get a few of the desert scenery though.

I especially loved being able to go 140 Km/h! The people here will flash their lights at you if they want you to move over. I was trying to keep up with the few people on the road but I got flashed a few times. LOL!

We finally got to the hotel and checked in. We opened our window and realized that we were literally right by the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium. We knew it was close but we didn't know it was going to be what we saw out of our window. This stadium hosts soccer matches among many other events.

We sat for a few minutes and then got dressed and ready to attend to the Seafood Feast. We were so ready to eat. Our reservations were for 7pm but I quickly realized that we didn't need reservations even though that was what the restaurant advertised on their website. I think our expectations were based on our experiences in Abu Dhabi. We arrived and even though the display looked impeccable we expected more food since this was called a seafood feast. The seafood was good even though it wasn't plentiful. There weren't many options for sides. The options were 2 types of rice. I personally wished there were more sides. The brownies that were in the dessert area were DELICIOUS!!! We took pictures of everything.