The ascent
Apparently the elevator trip up the Burj is the longest trip in a single elevator. I wouldn't be surprised! The Burj broke about three records during building. Or so I heard. But one especially amazing thing is that we ascended 124 levels in one elevator trip! ONE!And I think someone said that you could stay up the Burj until midnight, but I'm not sure.
The top

There was also a Virtual Reality thing you could do, where you did things that made that experience sort of remind you of the movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. You got to climb up the Burj, and then jump off it into the huge fountain below (which apparently is a piece of art, so you can't take any photo's of it). After I did that, we headed back down and started driving back towards our hotel.
I fell asleep in the car, then woke up just before we parked by a public beach and my parents got out and took a photo in front of a thing called Burj Al Arab.
The only other major thing we did was take a swim at the pool in our hotel in Abu Dhabi. It was nice there.
Awesome article Hadrian! Loved it!
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