On the icy rink...

Just a few months back, a friend asked me-"So what was the last new thing you did?". I thought a bit about it, then I thought a bit more, and after an excruciating silence, I came up with-"Oh let me think about it...what was it that you did?" and off we went on a tangential dicussion.

And last week I did finally find a new thing to do:)-Ice Skating! I was in Cincinnati and saw this beautiful skating rink right in the middle of downtown and decided to go for it. It seems parents in US (or atleast Ohio) want their kids to learn skating even before they learn to walk!! There were so many beautiful kids on the rink and I wanted to ask their parents whether they were born with the skating boots on! They were playing run and catch (for the lack of a better word for ஓடி புடிச்சு) while I was trying hard to stand on my two feet (or rather on the two blades under my boots).

After falling some twelve times and scraping most of the ice with bare hands (look at fotos for explanation), I finally got the hang of it...or so I thought until I made the near-fatal mistake of trying it a second time at our own Ohio State University Ice Hockey rink. All was well until the last ten minutes of our time, when instead of falling on my hands and knees as I usually do, I fell on my right leg twisting it out of shape in the process, thankfully no bones were broken in the process and am left with a right foot swollen to the size of a small apple...(some people seem to think it has been that way always-but the pain says a different story).

Ofcourse, just for the record I shall not stop, and am planning to get back on the rink as soon as the foot is ready! Trust me, except for that one last fall, it really WAS a lot of fun.

Pictures are here... http://picasaweb.google.com/toarvind/IceSkating