Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Julafton 2018

Staying here in the sandpit for Christmas and being without any own traditions anymore (still miss our Brunei Christmasses...), I wanted to do something special on Christmas Eve to at least try and get into the Christmas spirit a little bit.
We started the day with 'Santa porridge', for breakfast:


Then we took a trip to Dubai, and the winter wonderland which is Ski Dubai, in Mall of the Emirates. We had bought tickets for their snow park, and also booking in for a discovery skiing lesson!




We have visited Ski Dubai once before, which was in 2011 when we didn't even live here in the UAE. It was also on Christmas Eve actually, while we were in Dubai to spend Christmas with the Dehlis. Wise from that time, we remembered to bring gloves and hats this time, to withstand the cold a bit better!


We all loved our ski lesson! Nathan of course have been skiing before, but for the rest of us it was the first time. Even though it was just a taster type lesson, it was a lot of fun.



Linnea caught on really quickly, and was rather disappointed we only had an hour booked on the slopes. She was keen as.




After our ski lesson we took the chair lift a bit further up the hill, to have some lunch and hot chocolate at the 'Avalanche' café.



The different slopes here are actually rather impressive. We all agreed that we need to get back again soon (when it's not so many people...) and have another lesson and try to advance a bit higher up next time!



Rather than taking the ski lift back down again we opted for a slightly faster route, and took this 'Mountain thriller' back down in 45 km/h instead!


We finished off our day at the snow park with watching the March of the Penguins. They were so super cute, all of them!





In the evening we had Swedish 'Julbord' and watched 'Kalle och hans vänner' - almost can't get any more traditionally Swedish!





Från oss alla till er alla - en riktigt God Jul! ❤️

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