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This looks completely awesome.

Fantastic report. The snow makes the park seem so peaceful. Like alilstronger I hate the cold and snow, but it does look fantastic in pictures.

*blushes* I'm a runner up? That was so much fun. And really those pictures do look like you guys are having an absolute blast over there. I will be the first to say, I learned quite a bit about Middle East amusement parks this week, and never really realized that there was that much to do in Dubai. Nicole

You beat me to it! I know that coaster all too well... It's not Superman Escape in Australia. Its trains have a slightly different front with no air holes. Storm Runner at Hersheypark on the other hand has a similar front. I'm thinking this photo was a reference to the Hersheys store from a few pages back. Storm Runner's supports are gray not blue. Storm Runner Supports

Thanks! Nicole

On, the first page, when I click on the 18th set of clues, I get a topic doesn't exist page. Is that just me that is getting that? Nicole

The ski photos lead me to believe they have visited Ski Dubai. As seen here http://www.skidxb.com/home/about-ski-dubai/virtual-tours.aspx.

Blue watch thing is from Wild Wadi. Source this TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57522&p=968077#p968077

The background Hyatt hotel in this picture kind of looks like this one in Dubai. http://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/gallery/photos.jsp?hotelId=8&icamp=corpPhotoGallery Trying to search amusement parks near there now. It's getting past my bed time though.

Does Elissa have a different color shirt on? In one of the pictures it looks like she's got a black shirt on instead of the purple one.

In more searching that drawing of a ride in the 14th clue set, looks like Asteroids from Adventureland in sharjah. (looking at ride photos on http://www.adventureland-sharjah.com/).

Ok, sorry if this ends up being a double post, but I wanted to differentiate this guess post with my comment from above. Possibly instead of Qatar, they could be/could have been in Saudi Arabia. 4th picture in the 14th clue set, not looking at the ride, kind of has a similar look to the skyline I've Googled on the Persian Gulf side of Saudi Arabia. (Also using the 2nd and 3rd pictures to see some of the architecture, and heights of the buildings, as these buildings do not look no where near has high as Dubai.) I'm stumped as to what park it might be. I've googled some places, but all the websites turn out to be not working, or under construction, so it's hard to find information perspective pictures of these amusement parks. Red escalator Google Search I came up with Sweden or Switzerland as a country that has red escalator. Could the red escalator be in the IKEA that was in an earlier set of clues? ETA: in the second set of clues when the shoe lace is tied to the left, could that mean East, as when people make a little compass and stick East on the left, so if the Shoelace was on the east side, it could be because you were heading to the Middle East? I think I'm rambling now. Off to analyze more pictures.

I'd like to keep playing, but ultimately it's your decision Robb.

@BigDipper 80 But I still have no idea why they are back in Dubai, or if another Baja Fresh snuck in somewhere. And I've just realized that first picture you reposted is a dragon. I thought it was some funky bizarre animal, since a lot of parks anywhere outside the US have odd mascots, themeing to them.

I'm having a blast, trying to figure things, out, I just keep hitting some dead ends. But so far my google has told me in clue set 14 the last two pictures are Baja Fresh, and http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100121005101/en/burj-khalifa/Fast-Casual/franchise This article seems to point out that the only Baja Fresh is in Dubai, so i think after your adventures today, you've returned to Duabi. I'm assuming that Dubai is your main starting point for all your locations. Ok, time to look at the rest of the pictures to see if I can figure something else out. Nicole

I'm not a web search master like you are, lol. I've tried doing searches on stuff, and came up pretty darn empty, because I probably don't know completely what I'm searching for.

Ok, from the next set of pics that are going up on Facebook. If I am to believe the last clue of set 11, they have moved on their way to Bahrain. First picture in Set 12, Elissa at Pizza Hut and go to http://www.pizzahut-me.com/English/FindMyPizzaHut_SelectLocation.html you can see that Bahrain is on that list, but so is UAE as well, where they just were, so that could be a red herring. (editing in, Yep, even in the Middle East their Pizza Hut's are better than ours in the US). The architecture shots, I have no clue about.

Randomness, I was just watching Build it Bigger on the Science channel and they had the Abu Dhabi episode just on (round building from one of the pictures was featured). And I see more photos were added to facebook recently. I think my brain still hurts from yesterday.

As it's only 8:30am in Dubai right now, they are probably just getting up and around for the day. (http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/) So they could possibly be on the road, later today (their time) to head towards where everyone has been suggesting earlier. But I was just thinking the first picture in the newest set of clues looks like something I saw on Build it Bigger when they were in Dubai, then again BiB was also in Abu Dhabi a couple times too...

Googling KFC delivery in Dubai brought me this page: http://www.startpagedubai.com/home-delivery/KFC.html Which matches the logo on the KFC building that Robb just posted.

^ Of course, though I'm checking out your Facebook page Robb, and see some new photos.

Since assets has ass in it... Pan Am did sell some assets to United, which we think is the airline they flew. Possibly? Is there an icon for brain exploding?

Me too, me too.

Ok, that leads to first thought, Pan American airlines, but they folded in the early 90's. But they were partners with Delta or something similar towards the end there, and Delta is R & E's preferred airline. Yes, I'm rambling now.

^^ The thing on the top of their legs is not an IKEA bag it's one of the airline pillows. If they were on United like most of deduced already United uses the blue little pillow case over the pillow.