Guess What!?!

Guess what I did over Chistmas break?!? Originally from Southern California my feet have never walked on water before, much less ice skated. I think I skated a couple times around age 6 at a birthday party perhaps? And that was in a housed rink! Here I am at the foot of the Canadian Rockies in my in-laws backyard on frozen Columbia Lake, with hockey skates on. What a thrill!  And gorgeous.  My Canuck side of the family all born with skates on are of course brilliant at hockey and skating. As soon as I had my skates on I promptly slipped and fell onto my back.  They were very quickly reminded that I grew up way south of the border.   

 

Once I got the hang of it, it was like skate skiing and turned into a great workout. My muscles with so much biking and running are used to going forwards and back, this side to side motion was good for them. Some other folks had scraped the snow off the ice to make a rink and also created tracks around the lake so you could do laps. My husband grew up playing ice hockey so of course we had to hit the puck around, however we couldn’t find a puck, ended up using a fluorescent ball. We did some passes, he taught me a few things, started racing around trying to get the puck from each other…….hmmmm…….…this hockey thing is pretty fun. Might have to do more of this in the winter season. I think I am starting to really like winter and Canada!