Snow Wonderland

This weekend Hils was in town so there was a good excuse for some random fun. First up a visit to “Snow Wonderland”. We had tried to visit in August when Mel was with us, but it was shut for renovations. This was obviously a HUGE disappointment. Luckily disappointment didn’t strike us twice.

After being equipped with some midget blue wellies and putting on my sweater for the first time since arriving back in Yangon in January, I was ready to go through the giant freezer doors into the wonderful snow wonderland. I am sure it brought back happy memories for Ant of entering the McDonald’s catering freezers to grab a few burgers back in the day.

 

Once inside it was another world. There were icy castles, icy angry birds, an army of ice santas, ice tunnels, an icy Christmas tree, (not exactly seasonal), icy snowman, icy snow white and 7 dwarves, icy games to play etc. Basically LOTS of ice. Hils was wise and wore one of the big multi-coloured padded coats they had for people to borrow.

     

Then it was on to the snow slope. Just like a mini MK SnowDome in the tropics. After negotiating the icy steps you got to tube down the slope at top speeds and crash into unsuspecting people at the bottom - which was a lot of fun.

  

After that was the toboggan run. The was an extra 30p to ride on and was very fast, icy and bumpy. I am not totally convinced it would pass any UK Health and Safety inspections, but was a lot of fun. As you can see by the point I got to ride the toboggan I was feeling rather cold. Cropped trousers were not a good idea… and where was my balaclava? My nose was so cold… to say nothing about mittens. At one point I was vaguely contemplating the possibility of contracting frost bite in Myanmar, which might not be a story that the insurance company would believe.

 

Finally a snap of an amusing scene which is often an integral part of any outing nowadays. Ant is posing with a Myanmar woman (who we have never met before) and her 3 friends are taking photos of the happy couple. This went on for some time as the women had to rotate so they could all have a snap with the tall ginger foreigner. As I was laughing away taking photos of them taking photos of him I too was accosted and had to have my photo taken with random Myanmars. Not being a minor celebrity may take some adjusting to whenever we return to England.