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Dear Érica,

In what concerns Christmas everything is arranged! Lapland will be our destination with all the snow and reindeer that crossed your mind and all the hot chocolate with marshmallows that we can drink. Our parents (plus Gabriel's and Robert's, I suppose) will meet us there two days before the Christmas Eve and will leave after the New Year party (with which my mother is strangely excited, but maybe is just because she misses me).

I'm completely restored from the cold and I've got to admit that Gabriel was an impeccable gentleman during these days that passed, the sum-up of our week couldn't be more especific and fun. (except for that part of the chicken soup! ... but ultimately it was an unforgettable week.)

Well, on this week before Christmas you know how travelling becomes exhausting with all the human traffic blocking the airports due to the Christmas vacations. So, I decided to choose a, very far from Dubai, place to know and where I could regain my strenght. With this said I gladly present you: The Hawaiin Island.

That's right, I also heard that Bruno Mars was going to give a concert here and since his ancestry is Hawaiian he, every once in a while, returns home and throws a smaller concert, with one of the most amazing sunsets I've ever seen as background on a beautiful black sand beach.

And these days where filled with the most amazing activities! Can you believe that I went swimming with a manta ray? Not to speak of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, in which I bearly set foot (wasn't for Gabriel's persistence), but at the end I loved it.

The next activities are for you to laugh a little: I played the Golf Capital of Hawaii (and I actually did very good, according to a gentleman who appeared to be one or two years above is 100th birthday) and I dived into the waterfalls on the Hamakua Coast, gotta tell you that it's the most unpleasent thing in the world. The water falls with such strength that its very hard to stand under it. Gabriel however didn´t had a hard time doing it, so there where 20 minutes of relax for me, napping under the sun, and of pure fun to him, you should have saw him, more happy then a baby laughing!!

Beside this we also saw the tallest sea mountain in the world at more than 33,000 feet called Maunakea and skied on the snow-capped mountaintops, (see, I don't always go to only warm places).

Well this was my latest adventur, I'm looking forward to Christmas and the New Year's Eve .

Farewell and see you soon,

lots of love,

Sara.