Friday, December 5, 2008

Ice Skating Returns to Racine

"Parks flooded for ice skating"

Yay!

I was just saying to a friend the other day, "Why don't they flood the parks for ice skating like they used to?"

Now, is there anyplace in town that still rents skates?
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11 comments:

OrbsCorbs said...

I haven't skated for almost as long as I hadn't bowled. Maybe the next JTI get together should be on the ice? Perhaps we could bowl on the ice.

December 5, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Anonymous said...

And if a kid walking home from the ice rink slipped and fell on a patch of ice on the sidewalk in front of your house, their parents would have a lawyer all over your butt.

December 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM
kkdither said...

The last time I ice skated I cut my chin open. I'll take a drink with ice, but skating? Orbs, you crazy!

December 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Anonymous said...

I agree KK. That might not be a good idea. Not only will you cut your chin open, but you might spill your drink!

December 5, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Huck Finn said...

Heh, I think this town is cold biased. The parks were flooded this summer and we didn't get to go ski-ing...

December 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
kkdither said...

Dang, can't be spilling my drink! We couldn't water ski this summer because gas prices were too high to fill the motorboat.

Hey, speaking of gas prices... I just saw $1.70. at the Speedway. Why, oh why, were we spending over $4.00 a gallon in the summer while Exxon et al was raking in record profits??? Maybe that deserves a blog all its own?

December 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

Pretty soon they'll be paying us to take the gas.

Yeah, I re-thought the ice skating idea. I figured the worst I could do bowling was throw out my back or maybe fall down. You can break bones ice skating, though. Sometimes I forget how old and decrepit I am.

December 5, 2008 at 5:39 PM
drewzepmeister said...

My ankles are shot from a water-skiing accident UP North years ago,so ice skating would nearly impossible for me to do.

December 5, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Lizardmom said...

hmm, zipping around in the freezing cold, on super thin blades, with the great probability of crashing onto a super hard suface, nope not for me!
That, and my ankle is still weakened from 2 months in that boot!

I'll stick to bowling and those 'cool' shoes and low scores, much safer!

December 6, 2008 at 8:47 AM
cyndi said...

I LOVE to skate! We even drive all the waaayy down to the Ice Plex in Kenosha and have a go at it. It's insanely expensive ($24 for 3 of us for 90 minutes of skating), and you have to dodge the little hockey rats who try to kill you, so maybe an outside rink would be nice, esp if it's FREE. we used to have a large pond when I was growing up, so I'd spend the winters thinking I was Dorothy Hammill (nerd!).

December 6, 2008 at 9:14 AM
MinnesotaChick said...

I don't think I could ice skate anymore! But grew up skating at Albert & State park (what's it called now?) when they would flood the field.. ahhhhh the good old days...

December 8, 2008 at 12:14 AM

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