Dec was kick-started with the Dubai 7s - and unless you've been living in a black hole somewhere, NZ WON!! Bout time we got something under our belt. It was a great couple of days, you wouldn't have thought you were in Dubai, that's for sure. I had some friends over from London for the weekend and of course the local kiwi gang. And the event was topped off by Zu2 - the best U2 cover band and they were darn good!!
The final score!!!The next night we attended the Kiwi Ball, the event of the year. Black tie at the Grand Hyatt. Op Shop were flown over by Emirates (yay!!) to play for the evening, and we had a great feed and fab NZ wine :)
Now I have Kath and Noah here for Christmas and we've already started trekking around Dubai. They got to see Ski Dubai today - we'll go back for Noah to have a go soon. I'm not so keen after my last venture inside. I took part in an amazing race challenge put on by a media company - I was part of the "Fly Emirates" team. And one of our challenges was to don ski gear over our jeans and trek up the entire slope. We were not impressed and not in a hurry to go back!!
Christmas day is dinner for 10 at my villa - yay for Noah cooking the meat! Going to be a fun day, followed by a NY Party at mine too. It's a good location so might as well use it.
Will update again once we've survived all the festivities. Merry Christmas!!!
