Yes Kelly and I managed to escape for a nice 3 day weekend in Dubai. We accompanied our 6 Canadian friends from Kuwait to support them in the 2009 "Dubai Mighty Camels" Canadian Hockey Tournament. The rest of the team met in Dubai. Two professional female hockey players came from Czech and Russia to join the team. Both girls are actually Canadian, one from Regina and the other from La Duc, Alberta. 4 other guys flew in from Edmonton to join the team and a couple drove down from Abu Dhabi. It was a nice reunion as all these folks played together as kids and many played together up until university but have since gone their separate ways. Kelly and I went along for the ride. They lost the first two games on Thursday then re-grouped and won both games Friday, which was the rubber-match with the Dubai team. Today they lost in a shoot-out but were all very happy with their performance. The Edmontonians will fly back Monday as the rest of us made our way back by Saturday evening.
Luckily we were able to make it to the Harley dealership this time around. Clothing options were minimal as the dealership was more geared towards bike sales and the "brother-dealership" across the city has all the clothing and apparel. Regardless we got our meat-hooks into a couple nice t-shirts to bring home and use as rags........I mean give to some harley owners.
We painted the city red both nights we were there and had a wonderful time meeting many new faces all from our "back yard" .....W.Canada.
School will be wrapping up soon as we only have about 25 teaching days left and course work is to be completed by May 21st. Ok with me! All our students will write final exams which soaks up a week at the end of the year. The last exam will be written June 4 and that will mark the end of the year, however, we have administration work to deal with and our rooms to pack up before departing.
Kelly and I fly out June 13 and arrive in Winnipeg June 13 at 14:30.
See you there!
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