WHAT A WEEK! (W/C Sun 15th Apr) My mates (Fran and Roz) came back for a visit….so we packed in as much as possible this week! While they hit the beach we were busy working so that meant lots of evening activity!
They arrived Sunday night…..so I met them later that night.…….
Monday we chilled in the flat, lots of girlie chatting (YES I can do girlie chatting too!), catching up, take out etc…..just what was needed by us all! CJD was cleaning…leaving us to the heart to hearts, in fact it was quite a windy night…..opened the balcony door and the breeze was enough to blow the cobwebs away…………;-)
Tuesday, CJD dropped us off at the Deira Gold Souk. I wanted to get something for my mum and the girls wanted to see the souk in its full glory when the shops were open!!! Mission accomplished, it was off to the taxi rank to head to Irish Village. No sooner had we got to the bar and Roz had attracted interest! (cant take her anywhere)…….These ‘boys’ at the bar were dropping a shot of baileys into Guiness and downing it…….funny how they waited to see if we were watching them before proceeding to neck their drinks….very impressed lads……:-/
We went to grab a table and one of them followed and proceeded to tell us that his mate was too shy to speak to Roz but would she go back in so they could talk………..erm…..see ya mate! NO!
We stayed for a couple of hours and then headed home. (its still a school night!).

Wednesday night we hit the slopes……..emailed around work to see if anyone fancied some snow bashing……and all met at MOE.
The first run is always the ‘getting used to it again’ run! Well that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it…The skis felt so fast. Usually a sharp turn would be enough to slow my decent, however, I wasn’t anticipating that I would turn so much that I would be facing upslope and proceed to descend butt first! The last thing I remember before getting a face full of snow was Hmmmmm I don’t know how to stop in this direction! (note the dusting of white stuff on my hat!)Nevermind………after almost ripping my knee joints apart I stopped……,and after catching up with Stu and Katie, waving a few times to CJD and Fran, Roz and I got our confidence to fly down the slope! Bottom to bottom was taking around 6-7mins….not bad considering the lift is around 5mins of that time.
We watched Stu gracefully boarding down the slope, occasionally getting some air….unfortunately the jump was shut, otherwise I am sure he would have pulled more tricks. Spurred on by such displays and the realization that it was probably our last visit to Ski Dubai Roz and I pushed our ability further…..mainly increasing speed……this was great until I was sandwiched between a skier and a boarder, forced to go straight down in the general direction of the shelf that Stu was jumping off…..OH MY GOD! I couldn’t see the slope, just the ‘jump’ and BANG! All I could do was relax my knees and go with it…..Proper air!!! And I landed it! GAME ON! Had to do it again……and again…….erm….and again! Great fun! If I recall correctly…..CJD did have one good wipeout!.....in front of me…it was sooooo good she lost her skis! Very impressed…..i held up the 10 board as I went passed…..(of course I checked if she was ok too!)
At the end of the session CJD, Roz, Fran and I went for a fully loaded hot chocolate, Jumped in the Chevvy and headed home!