Laura H
07-10-2007, 02:01 PM
I haven't posted in a while . . . but you might remember that our local rink was abruptly closed down on 4/30/07 (out of state management company). Rumors have been flying, but it actually made the papers this a.m. that the rink is under contract and the new owners DO plan to keep it a skating rink :bow: . . . it's been nervewracking these past few months waiting to hear one way or the other!!
We've been burning up the highways to keep the kids (and yeah, myself) on ice . . . (one son figure skates, the other plays hockey) my figure skating son has been lucky enough to still get a weekly private lesson with his usual coach - she is commuting too - & he's gotten really solid on his lutz and loop . . . still chasing that elusive axel though!! ;)
I have been trying to keep up with my skating too, but it's awfully hard to do without formal instruction . . . and the public session ice at the rink where we have been going is a little "scary" for jumps, at least for an . . .umm . . . MATURE skater such as myself . . . (they only zam at the beginnig of the session, as far as I can tell). (Also, the skaters are MUCH more erratic - there is no rink guard, at least at the session we have been going to, and people routinely cut straight down the middle of the ice with no advance warning - eek!)
Anyway, it's been a very interesting few months (and we have definitely realized how SPOILED we were before! 8O ) Hoping and praying that things will work out for the prospective buyers and that we can be back on "home ice" soon!!
We've been burning up the highways to keep the kids (and yeah, myself) on ice . . . (one son figure skates, the other plays hockey) my figure skating son has been lucky enough to still get a weekly private lesson with his usual coach - she is commuting too - & he's gotten really solid on his lutz and loop . . . still chasing that elusive axel though!! ;)
I have been trying to keep up with my skating too, but it's awfully hard to do without formal instruction . . . and the public session ice at the rink where we have been going is a little "scary" for jumps, at least for an . . .umm . . . MATURE skater such as myself . . . (they only zam at the beginnig of the session, as far as I can tell). (Also, the skaters are MUCH more erratic - there is no rink guard, at least at the session we have been going to, and people routinely cut straight down the middle of the ice with no advance warning - eek!)
Anyway, it's been a very interesting few months (and we have definitely realized how SPOILED we were before! 8O ) Hoping and praying that things will work out for the prospective buyers and that we can be back on "home ice" soon!!