Dry Skiing

In January my office is taking a group of 30 to go skiing in Scotland. Although I have lived my whole life within a 45 minute drive to several ski resorts, I have never learned to ski. I have snowboarded a few times, but that is about it. Since 28 out of the 30 people have never skied either, we decided to take a class. Now you may be asking yourself in a county that has no REAL mountains and no consistent snow falls where could you do that at? Just 30 minutes from Dublin in the little village of Kilternan there is a dry slope. It is sort of like diamond shaped hairbrushes that you ski on. Not soft at all if you were to fall, but I was determined not to fall. I picked it up rather quickly and seemed to be the best in the class. Multiple classes later I am cutting down the slope, turning and STOPPING! Stopping on my own accord is key. Now I don't mind falling in snow, but I am glad that as of yet, I have not fallen onto the hairbrush from hell. If there is no snow in Scotland, a group of us may go to Andorra for another weekend to try out our new skills. Now we will see how good I do in January. Update to follow......