My town (Reston, VA) has an outdoor ice rink in the winter (obviously!) but I never managed to try it out last year. The one time we organised an outing for it the temperature was -10°C and no one really fancied being outside. We thought we’d try again.
I haven’t ice skated since I was about 14. I used to go to Hamilton Ice Rink on a Sunday night for “Disco night”, I then discovered boys so started hanging about in parks and pubs! Twenty years of no skating… It showed! The first five laps were horrendous, really bumpy, shaky and my feet were killing me. I got into the stride after that and did another few laps but I must admit i’m kind of over it again 
Ben had a great time though and would love to do it again.
The rink
Me (note the cute cat hat!)
