Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since this was so much fun before, let’s see what Marcie has for us this month…..

My Olympic Ice Skating Debut………Not!!

Living up in the great white North, one of our favorite past times in the winter is ice skating. Seeing how this winter has been a strange and mild one for us, we were pleasantly surprised to see that our outdoor rinks were finally ready.

So the other day my sister and I bundle up in our snow gear, we now look like Maggie Simpson, fall into the car cause we can barely move in our snowsuits and drive over to the rink.  We somehow manage to extract ourselves from the car and waddle our way to the benches to change into our skates.  With our pack of tissues in our pockets and skates on we’re ready to go.  

Now keep in mind one hazard of ice skating is children learning to skate.  They become road hazards, like little speed bumps in the road that you should really avoid.  Ten minutes out on the ice and we’re now playing dodge the falling child.  Here comes a child sliding by, wheeeee,  as I go one way dodging the little speed bump, another falls and I’m forced to go the other way. I’m now zig zagging across the ice attempting to stay upright. They really should make a smaller ice pad for the learning to skate crowd. 😉  Of course we get the giggles which doesn’t help cause now the wind has picked up and our eyes are tearing.

One more joy of outdoor skating, next it’s the runny nose. Yes I’m now juggling the task of dodging children, tearing eyes and needing to blow my nose all well staying upright on my skates.  Oh no let’s not forget the bumpy patches and chips in the ice which I always seem to find. As I manage to by pass one chipped spot I hit another and I go staggering across the ice, hit a bumpy part, my arms are flailing in an attempt to keep me upright and I wind up in a snowbank, stumbling to a stop.

Here come the giggles again and runny nose.  Oh the joys of outdoor skating in winter in the great white north.   As we continue our adventure on the ice,  it appears the wind doesn’t want to stop so every time we come around the corner and skate towards the other end, we get blasted by some chilly wind.  Me a clutz on feet, decides to turn around and skate backwards to avoid the wind in my face.  *warning bells begin to play in the background…..”Danger Will Robinson, Danger”…  I was never that great at skating backwards and I should always remember this but no, I turn and attempt to glide backwards.  Bad decision, my blade catches a chipped spot or small hole in the ice and I suddenly can fly, backwards albeit it but I am now sailing through the air. This outcome will not be good I just know it.  Needless to say I make a less then stellar landing and look like a chalk drawing in a murder investigation.  

Thankfully nothing is broken, just my ego and I’m once again laughing along with my sister. After an hour we finally decide to call it quits, and head home for a well deserved hot chocolate and baileys.  Tune in next time for another adventure in the life of Devil Mouse. 😉  

Marcie