Ice Skating

The first day we were here, the first thing we did (after eating our yummy brekkie) was to go out and buy winter boots, scarves, gloves etc from a local store that Bill and Brenda kindly took us to... then we went to Canadian Tire, a franchise here, to buy ice skates!! We both got a pair of hockey skates and were ready to hit the ice. We never knew that the skates actually have to be sharpened before you can go skating on them!! There was a line of about 20 people waiting for their skates to be sharpened!! Just as well we were at the front of the queue.

That night we went to Ben Franklin Place which is a fountain in the summer and an ice rink in the winter, and where there is a wall to cling on to!! (which as you can imagine we needed desperately!!). We managed to find our feet and realised the hard way just how slippery that ice really is when you are trying to glide effortlessly across it on two thin pieces of steel!! Becs managed to make it through without falling (more good luck that good management as most of you know how much of a clutz she really is), and Lee ended up on his bum a couple of times, but no problems!

Then we went to China Town for Pho. For those of you who have no idea what Pho is (as we didn't), it is Vietnamese soup. We got a huge bowl of chicken and mushroom soup with noodles. Was really really yummy and filled our tummy's before the next adventure.

We then went skating on the Rideau Canal, which is quite a famous place to go skating, and apparently people come from all over the world to skate there. The area you can skate on is approximately 7 miles long, which we are going to do before long with a bit of determination and practice!! The ice that night was not very flash, and some parts were very very slippery, which poor Lee managed to find out when his feet decided to jump out from under him and he landed on his dodgy shoulder!! Bugger. But he picked himself up and carried on skating with no worries.. and is planning on avoiding landing on that shoulder in the future. :) The great thing about Lee is that if he falls over, he just cracks up laughing and picks himself up and carries on. I don't know that Becs would be quite the same and there would probably be tears and tantrums!!

Becs skating next to the wall at Benjamin Franklin Place.

Lee skating next to the wall.

At Canadian Tire, purchasing our iceskates.

We have since also been skating again at Ben Franklin Place, and neither one of us fell over!! Hallelujah!

The next skating mission is to go skating on the canal on Sunday, so hopefully our new found no-falls run of luck will still be in place! Will write about it and let you know!