Venice Beach as viewed from Scotland

Bleue and Saige in Venice Beach last December. As no-one has added their photograph, I as their proud Grandma, have decicded to do so.

Only in Dubai!

The 'Burj Dubai' is hoping to be the tallest building in the world when finished, and as you can see above.... it is pretty huge at the moment! Its basically like seeing 5 tower blocks on top of one another and they're still building!


3 weeks ago we moved into or new training facility which has spectacular views over Dubai creek, the Creek Golf Club and the Emirates Towers in the distance (Matching buildings behind the red roof which look like toblerone chocolate bars!!)

Unfortunately I'm not very good at this 'blogging' thing, and cant seem to get the pics to provide the panoramic shot I expected. Not a bad club house though!!

Slightly hazy day, but gives you an idea of the 'sand pit' I call home!

I wandered lonely as a cloud.....

So on Friday (which is our weekend) I was woken by a phone call which went something like this....

(Josh) "Tess, you need to get up. Danny is not coming so we have an extra place for ski-diving.."

(Tess) "Huh?"

(Josh) "We'll be at your in 5 minutes"

(Tess) "Huh?"

(Josh) "Your jumping, see you outside in 5 mins"

(Tess) "Huh?...Ok!"

So we went to Umm Al Quwaim Aero club where 8 of us then selected an envelope which would decide our jumping order...And you've guessed it...I pulled "Congratulations, you get to jump 1st!!"

I wont lie and say that sky-diving has always been on my list of things to do, but it was worth it just for the scenery!

And when it came time to move to the door sill at 9,500ft, I was strangely eager to jump...

The free-falling was an amazing experience which I will never forget...not very glamourous though!

Bonus..the parachutte opened!

And back to basics...the ground!