Minus 4 to Mighty High

Last day in Dubai. Tried dragon fruit at breakfast. No particular taste and full of poppy like seeds. Different! So today we tried out Ski Dubai. Peter and Adam who have never skied had a lesson while David snowboarded and Chris and I skied. It was wonderful skiing again. Took us back to where it all began…meeting on the high school ski trip. Very fitting as we count down to our 30^th wedding anniversary. The ski slope is 400m, long enough and steep enough to get a good run. We certainly hadn’t lost our skills. Lovely chatting to the international visitors on the chair lift. The world is full of interesting people. Was wonderful to watch David snowboard and Peter and David master the art of skiing. Had some fun on the toboggan run and tubing runs. The park mimics an alpine village complete with fir trees, they even have resident penguins which were so cute to watch. A novel place to spend family time in freezing temperatures…at least you get given a parker and pants.

Now for a highlight of our stopover, a ride to the top of the Burg Kahlifa. Insanely tall the lift takes you over 850m up…in about a minute! The view was amazing in every direction. Skyscrapers beneath looking so small and cars just dots.  Stayed for sunset…stunning. Gorgeous oranges and yellows with reflections in the sea. Very interesting seeing how they built it, an amazing feat. The design is based on a native flower. Back on ground level at night it was lit up in the national colours. Very specky. Watched the fountain show at night. Loved it…dancing water jets to Arabic music. We wandered the Dubai Mall exploring parts we hadn’t seen. It is massive, gorgeous and incredible. Adam loved all the posh cars arriving and inside the Mall was the most expensive model car ever made. A solid gold Ferrari!

So Dubai…insane in every way!  You just have to see it to believe it.