Some Firsts For Megan

On Monday we took ourselves off to the 'Irish Village' near the airport. This is where the Dubai Tennis Stadium is and where the Dubai Tennis Championships were taking place. Monday was the first day of the women's tournament and tickets were only 30AED (less than a fiver!) so we thought we'd go along and watch a bit of tennis. This was Megan's first 'first' of the last few days, the first time she's watched a live tennis match. She really enjoyed it and we saw some great matches. We saw Kirilenko vs Bondarenko (ranked about 26th and 27th in the world) and also Schynder vs Dementieva (ranked 12th and 13th in the world) among others. It was a great day out and the weather was cracking. After arriving at 1pm we stayed until about 10pm so I think we definitely got our money's worth!!

Megan's second 'first' came the next day at Ski Dubai. She has never been skiing before and didn't know whether she'd like it so we booked her in for a 'Discovery Lesson' and she absolutely loved it! She took to it really quickly and where better to try it out than at the largest indoor ski slope in the world? Better than booking an entire holiday and realising that you don't actually like it! Whilst Megan was in her lesson I went onto the slopes and tried a few jumps and also the worlds first 'indoor black run'. It was incredibly good for an indoor ski slope but not quite what you find marked as a black run in the Alps.
Ski Dubai is really strange, it's weird being in such a hot country (30 degrees again today) but then putting on your thermals and going off for some fun in the snow! A great place and typical of Dubai, generally building things (usually the biggest in the world) just because they can.

Today we are relaxing by the pool again, trying to make sense of the fact that this time yesterday we were in -1C and now we're in +30C and we've only travelled into town and back!
The general plan for our last 2 days in Dubai is to relax and generally not do a lot! We've seen a lot of what Dubai has to offer and we've really enjoyed it. It's easy to see how it has become such a popular tourist destination and place for people to move to. Megan even admitted yesterday that she'll miss this place when we're gone.

But not to worry, we'll be in Singapore on Friday!!