Ice, Ice, baby!

I love being able to try out things that I can't necessarily do on a warm, sunny island. Whenever I've watched a figure skating Olympic competition, or even Dancing on Ice, I've said oooh i want to try that one day, so my first winter here, I  decided I would definitely do it and I did end up "attempting" to ice skate at the Natural History Museum's outdoor rink.  Had a lovely time, wasn't as graceful as the figure skaters you see on tv but was pleased as punch that I didn't fall once. "I'm a natural!", or so I thought.

So this year, the"pro", decided to take a friend and show them how its done!  Ha! Ha! Ha, my bum hurts, the palms of my hands hurt and I have a third knee growing larger by the minute ( I kid you not!)  I not only fell, I fell hard 5 times! I soo wanted to kill it like Vanilla Ice here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjqRaUAUXA  but tonight was not my night! I think its the ice...I blame it all on the ice, it was too hard, lol!  Either way, I love ice skating, and if its one thing i know I learnt tonight, its how to fall gracefully :)  And as an added bonus, saw my very first hockey match...just like watching the Mighty Ducks!

The Chieftans versus a romford team



my photographer had to beg me to let go of the railing, and move to the centre, to take this photo