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iceprincess
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Happy NEW YEAR to you too Miss 24k and SG!! I am finally back from my trip and I am ready to hit the journaling again. My Husband surprised me with a trip to Dubai (UAE) for New Years!! It was so wonderful to get off base and to get a little break from work and the best part of all was getting to sleep in!! We weren't able to make it to a weight room but we were pretty active everyday and we walked a TON. We went to the movies, bowling, snow skiing, and then the last day we were there, we went to the zoo AND walked 17 miles from the beach to the other side of Dubai - VERY cool! 
Some of you probably caught the whole SNOW SKIING and are wondering how one accomplishes that in the middle of the DESERT! Well, they have built a skiing facility in the middle of a MALL (the 2nd largest mall in the world!). My husband had been skiing ONCE a REALLY long time ago and I had NEVER been so, we were like why not! We were supposed to sign up for a ski class since we were beginners but my husband and I, being so athletic and so adventurous, thought to ourselves that we could handle it ourselves. So, we choose to pass on the class...which later I was REALLY glad that we did. We first got our gear (jacket, pants and ski's...which, I don't think they even looked at what size clothes they gave me, I was SWIMMING in them - LOL). Then we trekked over to the bottom of the "mountain" and just stood there for a minute, watching everyone and taking it all in. The sides of the building were painted with a mural of mountains and the top of the facility was light blue thus giving you a "sense" of being in the mountains and the snow was very much like real snow - very neat!! Now, I have been told that since I was an ice skater, that I would have no problem learning to ski, but at this point I was a little nervous...some of you will laugh, but I wasn't even sure how to put the ski's onto my boots!! (I would have figured it out, but my husband QUICKLY showed me - heehee
) So we were off to the bunny hill...we did extremely well on this one and were ready for more of a challenge so we hopped on the ski lift and headed up to the middle of this man built mountain. Once we were at the top we just stared down and started analyzing the mountain...we looked at each other and said let's hit it and wow I had a BLAST. Wow you get going fast...there were times were I thought that there was NO way I was going to stop at the bottom, but surprisingly enough I DID!! Yea!! So, to make a long story short, we had so much fun and what a workout! We are now actually thinking about going skiing on our next R&R...Does anyone know of a good place to ski (outside of the US) that still has snow in March? 
I will start my Journal back up and will hopefully post starting tomorrow. Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year!!
Some of you probably caught the whole SNOW SKIING and are wondering how one accomplishes that in the middle of the DESERT! Well, they have built a skiing facility in the middle of a MALL (the 2nd largest mall in the world!). My husband had been skiing ONCE a REALLY long time ago and I had NEVER been so, we were like why not! We were supposed to sign up for a ski class since we were beginners but my husband and I, being so athletic and so adventurous, thought to ourselves that we could handle it ourselves. So, we choose to pass on the class...which later I was REALLY glad that we did. We first got our gear (jacket, pants and ski's...which, I don't think they even looked at what size clothes they gave me, I was SWIMMING in them - LOL). Then we trekked over to the bottom of the "mountain" and just stood there for a minute, watching everyone and taking it all in. The sides of the building were painted with a mural of mountains and the top of the facility was light blue thus giving you a "sense" of being in the mountains and the snow was very much like real snow - very neat!! Now, I have been told that since I was an ice skater, that I would have no problem learning to ski, but at this point I was a little nervous...some of you will laugh, but I wasn't even sure how to put the ski's onto my boots!! (I would have figured it out, but my husband QUICKLY showed me - heehee
) So we were off to the bunny hill...we did extremely well on this one and were ready for more of a challenge so we hopped on the ski lift and headed up to the middle of this man built mountain. Once we were at the top we just stared down and started analyzing the mountain...we looked at each other and said let's hit it and wow I had a BLAST. Wow you get going fast...there were times were I thought that there was NO way I was going to stop at the bottom, but surprisingly enough I DID!! Yea!! So, to make a long story short, we had so much fun and what a workout! We are now actually thinking about going skiing on our next R&R...Does anyone know of a good place to ski (outside of the US) that still has snow in March? I will start my Journal back up and will hopefully post starting tomorrow. Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year!!
