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DAY #7 ...... Monday 8th February 2010 ...... DIARY

Club Med Sahoro Resort

The Light Parade

For two days prior to today, the Day's Events List had mentioned a "Light Parade"
We were told that thirty-five of the ski staff would ski down the mountain in the dark holding red flares
and that it would be a "sight to behold" from the Conference Room in the resort
But for the two days prior to today the weather had closed in during the afternoon and it was too windy and the lifts had shut
Today it was on though !!
We arranged to meet together in the Conference Room and me and Erin and Michelle were there first and got ourselves front row seats
The rest of the room filled up and then Jane and the boys arrived with drinks for us ... good work !!
We waited and waited for it to get dark
We had a great view of the slope they would be coming down ... and then Ben came in and announced five minutes til show time
They started and it was pretty spectacular watching them all snake slowly down the hill
I can only imagine how cold it must have been !!
About three times a flare stopped moving within the group and everyone started calling "man down man down"
and as much as it looked like that, I think that the flares were dropped and no one was actually left behind

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This is the run the 'Red Flares' will come down