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Published: June 25th 2010
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We have a really long sleep in (we get up with 9 minutes until breakfast ends!), we have breaky, I do a load of laundry (all my whites are now grey! Don’t know if it’s the washing machine, water or….) then head back to the Mall of Emirates to go to Ski Dubai.
We get all kitted out and decide if we can’t figure out the skiing thing, at least we look the part! We have to decide between skiing and snowboarding, so we go with skiing this time, we can always come back… There are only 3 in our group, us and a girl from London. She’s lovely, her boyfriend has been skiing for years so he is off snowboarding.
I can’t believe how hard it is to walk around in ski boots! It doesn’t look that hard on TV!
It’s minus 3 inside and as soon as we go through the doors, I’m glad I was a sook and bought a beanie and gloves!
The instructor is really good. At the time I thought it was really odd that we spent the first half an hour learning how to walk and brake. But it all
became so clear, I never realised how tricky it was to get around in skis.
Finally we hit the baby slope, I can’t believe I’m actually good at it and pick it up so easily! But more than that, I can’t believe I’m picking it up better than Tim - now that NEVER happens, I’ll remember today for a l-o-n-g time! How ironic though, that one of the few sports I’m good at involves a temperature I hate! But I’m ready to try the winter holiday now, but only if I can retreat to the warmth at really, really regular intervals!
Tim has the first stack of the day, I get a little over confident perhaps and stack it when we go up a higher slope, damn! When our hour of lesson time is up, our instructor lets us stay there for as long as we like - cool! Eventually though my fingers are so cold they hurt (if we did this again, I’m spending the money on decent gloves) and the knees are hammered so I bail out, but Tim follows soon after.
Before we leave, we watch a little girl, maybe between 4-6 years old,
and she is HATING it! Poor thing is in tears all the way down and doesn’t want to have anything more to do with it, but up she’s made to go up again. Obviously her parents want to be able to have snow holidays!
My hands are so cold, they hurt and after Tim gets all my snow stuff off for me I spend half an hour under the hand dryer!
Then it’s just roaming around the shops time. We find chocolate made from Camel Milk, so of course we have to get some, still waiting for Tim to get brave enough to try it though!
FINALLY THE AFL
Back at the hotel, we hit the rooftop pool for a bit of a relax, it’s not too hot, nice breeze, so when we finally wake up it’s dinner time! Haha, don’t worry we were only up there an hour, it’s light until late here!
Back in the room Tim discovers, for the first time since we left home, an AFL game! Geelong and St Kilda and it was tonight’s game! He is overjoyed!
We go downstairs to the Kebab Restaurant at half time, Tim
is there long enough to get his order and then back to the room!
What a great night, great food, great company and the football!
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