Another observance the country is almost wholly oblivious to is National Skating Month. Well, thanks to a Groupon our family got to experience the unmitigated terror that is ice skating.
This was the kids' first time. We are happy to report that there were surprisingly no tears from neither child nor adult for the duration of our hour on the rink. We actually got an amazing workout, despite our low speed and few laps. This by reason of every fiber of our being willing itself to maintain balance.
I'm sure as the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia soon approach, we will have an entirely new appreciation of the gracefulness of figure skating and ice dancing, the velocity of speed skating, the grit of ice hockey, and the quirkiness of curling.
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