Friday night my friends Trish, Kellen, Tanya and I were at the mall for a Silent Dinner (once a week this is the time the Deaf Community, interpreters, and ASL students gather together). But oddly, we saw only three people there, when there usually are many! Trish and Kellen talked me into trying my hand...or would it be my feet, on the ice!
Here I am flying over the ice, enjoying every second of it!
Here I am with Kellen, my skating teacher, watching as a crowd of newbee skaters come at us, fast! *smiles*
This is a Zamboni. When I first saw it, I asked Kellen, in ASL of course, "what's that?!" She said it's a machine that makes the ice smooth. My parents, growing up in Michigan have told me about skating, hockey, AND Zambonis. My dad always wanted to drive one.... *smiles*
I loved skating!! It was so much fun! I'm looking forward to bringing my family out on the ice sometime next week. YEAA!
Another life accomplishment completed, I've learned to ice skate!
3 comments:
Hey - wish I could have been there. Looks like fun! Never ice skating before? You poor, deprived child! JK
~Hann
And she didn't fall down once! If nothing else I think she kept me from falling down! Like this one time when I went spinning around in circles, if she hadn't stopped me I probably would have drilled a hole in the ice! *grins*
Right, Hann, deprived. lol. Yup, you should have been there - it was so much fun!! Although maybe we should switch, since you have more *natural* ice up north, right? How much snow do you have now?
Kell, yup, we *did* had several close calls while skating... and when you did that spin we managed to catch ourselves and look professional... you can't beat that. lol. We should do it again sometime with Trish. We'd be skating and giggling at the same time! Do you think we could get Kathy out there with us too?!
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