Like any true Utahn, Cairo spent Thanksgiving morning working up and appetite for turkey by skiing! Her friend Valentina, invited her to go take a ski lesson at Ski Dubai. Since we moved here, Cairo has wanted to ski in the mall. I have ethical problems with our children learning to ski in a shopping mall. We come from the Greatest Snow on Earth!!! It falls naturally from the sky (ok, sometimes assisted by a snow machine) onto beautiful tall mountains and resorts that we reach by driving up canyons. Not by driving in speeding traffic, risking our lives on the freeways of the UAE! I've adapted my thinking. Learning to ski on any slope is more fun and more critical than which slope it is. Our lives here are made up of compromises and exceptional experiences. This one was both.
Thanks to Yoca, my friend and Valentina's Mom for taking them to Dubai and for documenting the experience in photos so I could share in it. I was home cooking turkey.
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My kids would love skiing in a mall this week - skiing period, since we have no snow to speak of here.
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