(or...Let's Do Lunch, with Skates On...to mark the Vancouver 2010 Olympics)It was with a certain amount of nervous trepidation that six ladies from the Canadian Women's Club Precision Skating Team took to the ice on Friday Feb 26th.
The majority of us had not been on skates for quite a few years and only two of us actually owned skates!
But, no matter, we were up for it. After a very shaky start in the skate changing room (Sharon was about to give up until she received some encouragement from the skate hire man, who showed her and yours truly how to put the damn plastic skates on!) we were out and on the ice! And wow did we fly!
Around and round we went and in the same direction. Everyone was reluctant to perform anything but the most basic skating manouvers: right foot push left foot push swish...swish...swish. But once we recalled the rhythm of skating we quite enjoyed the whole experience for almost one and a half hours! And no major embarrassment of falling, whatsoever.
However, I must admit that, as Sharon said "it was good to be back on land again after leaving the rink!" We rewarded ourselves with a lovely lunch at Cafe Anglais in the Whiteleys Mall on the Queensway.
Everyone agrees we should make this a regular activity of the CWC. Anyone wishing to establish the CWC Precision Skating Team, please contact the Canadian Olympic Skating team for more details (or Patty Bell if you can't find their email)!
Humbly submitted by Patty 'Hot Skates' Bell (pictured above, but just out of shot of Joannie Rochette, Canadian winner of the Bronze Medal for Figure Skating)
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