So, first of all apologies for the lack of blogging, it’s been a very fun and busy 3 weeks over the festive period and into the New Year!
Secondly, Happy New Year to you all! Hope you had lots of fun over Christmas and the Holidays!
We had a very nice 1st Married Christmas day, lots of presents, and wine, and we cooked a full Christmas dinner with a 5 kilo (11 pound) turkey, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, veggies, stuffing, bacon, sausages, basically a HUGE feast!….just for the two of us! :) It was a great success, we missed having all our friends and family around us but had the strange experience of opening our presents in the 90 degrees heat! No chance of a White Christmas in the Desert!
I was off work for the Christmas period and we planned lots of things to do whilst The Foden’s were here. However, before they arrived and due to the fact that Andy, Stuart, Karen and Caroline in Tignes were making me very jealous with all their photos of the season in the snow, I managed to convince Erin to brave the cold and head to the world’s biggest indoor ski slope: Ski Dubai! I loved been back on a board, and managed a few jumps and Erin even enjoyed the skiing (which is a huge deal for anyone that has skied with her before)!
Anyway, The Family arrived on 27th December……………………………………….
……………………..With 18 bottles of smuggled booze! (We have Tequila, Vodka, Port, Sambuca, Gin, Jager and 9 bottles of wine!
Yes, they brought us a year’s supply of alcohol so in case we are desperate for a drink we have a big variety of choice now. It was great to have the family here with us, showing them the amazing city that we are living and working in. It also allowed us to act like tourists as well and see lots more of Dubai! We crammed sooo much into the 6 days they were here. The highlights being:
The Big Bus Tour of Dubai
A fun day at The Atlantis Hotel and WaterPark on The Palm.
An excellent Desert Safari trip including Dune Bashing, Camel Riding and Belly Dancing!
NYE celebrations were cancelled as an act of Solidarity for the people in Gaza, we however were able to have a fun night, with the smuggled booze, games and some very noisy kazoos!
We went to Abu Dhabi to watch the First Capitala World Tennis Tournament, where we watched Andy Murray, Andy Roddick & Roger Federer amongst others – and saw Murray beat James Blake en route to winning the event
An up close and personal visit to the Burj Dubai, as I managed to sneak us all on to the Building Site!
Sarah & Erin’s obvious highlight was when we went to the AC Milan training ground and a certain Mr. David Beckham, winked, smiled and waved at them both! They are still smiling about it now!!
We were sad to see them leave, but know they will be back and we also are now very excited as we have Mom & Dad Durica along with Amber heading over to see us at the beginning of March! So the planning and spreadsheets have already started being produced! It will again be sooo much fun! (Lets see if they can beat the 18 bottles)! Hehe!
Well I think this is long enough update to talk about the December activities, I will let Erin write the January (so far) update later this week!
It will be great to hear from you and tell us all about your Christmas and New Year fun!
We love and Miss you loads!!
Mark & Erin
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Facebook Photos of Christmas
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2221735&l=d1955&id=6402232The Family Holiday:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2223901&l=99ae2&id=6402232 
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