A couple of days ago at work Lesley, Cody and I got an undeniable urge to go ice skating. None of us had been in years, and none of us owned skates.. but we were determined to go skating at the legislature grounds that same evening!!
I finished work last that day, so the kids met me back at the store at 7 and we grabbed mochas and headed to our first stop- Value Village. Only Cody was able to find a pair to fit him and after Lesley and I left a couple of more thrift stores we headed to Zellers to find the cheapest pair of figure skates we could. AND WE DID! 35 dollars, nice!!
Unfortunately at this part of the adventure Cody had to meet up with some other friends for dinner. But Lesley and I were still determined!! We walked through the pretty lights and past the ice sculptures and finally found the ice rink!! We took our brand new skates out of their boxes and laced up! Everyone kept commenting on our brand new skates.. they were still in the shopping bags so it was pretty obvious we had boughten them just for the occasion.
We caught on to the whole skating thing surprisingly fast, and I didn't fall! And Lesley only fell once!! I was skating fast and doing crossovers after about 5 minutes... I couldn't even ever do crossovers when I used to skate all the time as a kid. (I thank roller derby for mah skillz).
WE HAD SO MUCH FUN WE WENT AGAIN YESTERDAY!! And Cody got to come this time! I practiced going backwards.. but I still can't stop! NEXT TIME!
I want to skate everyday for the rest of the winter!
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