February 22, 2004
More Winter Activities
I followed up last weekend's cross country skiing with yet even more winter activities this weekend. On Friday, Jeff, Dana, Jacob, Setsuna, Lynn, and I went to the free ice skating at the skating rink on Mayfield. This was the first time I had skated since going to the same thing last year. I really enjoy skating, though I still don't know how hockey players and figure skaters can do it so well. I'm decently good at skating, though. I don't feel like I'm going to fall down, and I can turn around and stop fairly well.
Then last night Angie, Tim, Dana, Chris, Jeff, Phil, Lynn, and I went to the Chalet ice chutes for tobogganing. It was a lot of fun. It cost $8 and we went down 5 or 6 times. Lynn was a little hesitant about doing it, because she really doesn't like the feeling of losing her stomach. Fortunately, you could buy a $3 ticket for one ride and then pay $5 more for unlimited rides. After trying it once, Lynn enjoyed it and upgraded her ticket. I was quite happy about that. After we were done riding the chutes, we went into the warming house and bought slushies.
We had dinner at a nearby restaurant called Mad Cactus. As the name implies, it was a Tex-Mex restaurant/bar. The food was pretty good and decently priced. The best part of the restaurant though was that we got to sit at this large round table in a gazebo-like setting.