Day 9 – Istanbul to the Desert to the Snow!

We arrived in Dubai at 7:30am and it was a Friday so had to wait till 10am for the car hire places to open. Went around there about 10am and they told us we would have to wait till 12 for a car! In the end they took us to their depot about 11:30am and we were able to get a car. Arrived at Ramee about 1pm, very tied, and fell in a heap. Slept till 3pm and then it was out to our favorite place, Emirates Mall. Shopped till 10pm when we went to investigate skiing the next day. There were no lessons scheduled for adults the following day before 3pm and we would miss them as we had to be at the airport by 4pm. Ellen had never skied before and they recommend that you have to have a lesson first. The guy behind th counter could see our enthusiasm for getting onto the snow and suggested that we go anyway and I teach her. So we paid colleted all our ski gear and went up the escalator to the ski field. Soooooo funny. It was freezing inside and as it was so late at night there were only 5 or so people still skiing, perfect. We began with a simple snow plough exercise that had Ellen pummeling down the slope on her butt and filling her pants with snow. I went up the chair lift a couple of times and even tried a jump!
It was awesome fun and we couldn’t stop laughing. We made snow angels and by the end Ellen had mastered the snow plough concept.

Back home to sleep.

Day 10

Bec came in at 7:00am and we slept till 12, back to the Emirates Mall for a look around and lunch. Drove out to the airport, much easier to find this time.

Flight to Doha 5:50pm YAY


Other Memories

Getting trapped in the elevator when we had to fly out that night. We got to the bottom of the rickety thing and tried to push the door open, it wouldn’t open. Then the lights went off and we were standing in the dark wondering if we would ever get out!! Upon trying the door again it swung open and we stepped out thankfully!

The huge man blocking the emergency exit on the plane! He was massive. You could have fit one of me in each trouser leg. The pockets of his pants were like pillow cases. He was sitting next to the emergency exit and we all feared that if there was an acceded he would block us in. The air hostess had to polity ask him to be re positioned for take off and landing.

“So the church was built in 250 BC right??” Woops!! As it was fiercely to me in a bout of hysterical laughter by my true friend Ellen, churches were only built after the introduction of Christianity.

Ellen saying “I like porn!” Actually referring to bling on sunglasses, like porn style, but very funny when that came out of her mouth.

Me taking the baggage trolley through the x-ray machine at the airport and wondering why I was going off. I didn’t see the little opening to the side.

Ellen saying “oh look an empty plane” when we were the first two people to walk onto it.

Dalaman – when we got off the shuttle from the departure hall and the run way we had to identify our baggage to the ground staff.

Ellen getting shitty at the airhostess. Her ticket stub had 9C and mine had 12B so we had to sit in different places, then a family came to the seat she was in and were like, that’s our seat. She got up and fumed at the thought of her ticket being double booked. The she realized she had pulled out an old ticket from a pervious flight we had taken on the 23rd July, it was August!