Ice ice baby

[jethrien]

Thanks to a brilliant idea which I cannot take credit for, a bunch of us went ice skating in Bryant Park yesterday. (That would be the park behind the library.) I haven't been ice skating since I was a little kid. I was a little worried because of this - but made a discovery. The same skills that allow you to turn while on skis allow you to turn while on ice skates. Woot! I could even go backwards (veeeeery slowly and poorly) and turn in little circles. Michelle Kwan I'm not, but there was no falling down.

Very crowded rink. I suspect it would have been a lot more fun with fewer people, but ah well. There was an Uma Thurman sighting.

We ended up going for barbeque and Texas-sized margaritas afterwards and then playing drunken air-guitar video games and movie trivia games afterwards. Air guitar I'm remarkably good at. Movie trivia, I'm not.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Agreed, although some of that is forced by the nature of skating. The human body was generally not designed to put all of its weight on an effective area of the foot a few square inches in area, particularly when that effective area is on the middle of the foot rather than the heel...