Winter

Dave, Meg, Darcy, Grant and I took advantage of the beautiful weather on Saturday and hit the canal for some skating. The ice conditions were pretty much perfect - definitely a hundred times better than the last time Grant and I went (a few weeks ago). The weather was pretty much perfect too - bright sunshine and temperatures around minus 4 degrees celcius. It was busy, but not overly so. We skated the whole thing, from Dow's Lake down to the Rideau St bridge and back. We also hit Patterson's Creek along the way and then up towards the locks in the experimental farm at the end of the skate. I got a chance to practice stopping and skating backwards, and Grant did his old trick of shooting the duck. By the way, photo is courtesy of Dave and the rest of his photos can be found here. It was a great day and I hope to be able to get back out at least once more this winter.

Seeing as today is the last day of Winterlude, or at least I think it is, a bunch of us decided to head over to Jacque Cartier Park to check out some of the fun activities they have over there. For me the highlight was definitely the big slide they had constructed. JK and David, Trev and Christine, and me and Liam made multiple trips down the slide. It seemed like my control over what happened during the slide got worse every time and by the last time we went down I ended up on my back sliding headfirst with Liam on my stomach. Good fun! Amy got a video of it, but since I haven't really figured out a good way to share videos yet (don't really want to put them on youTube) I guess it'll have to wait. While there, we also checked out some snow sculptures, went though a snow maze (pretty lame) and of course had a beavertail and some hot chocolate. You can check out all the pictures we took over at flickr. After our winter fun, we headed to the Kean's place for lunch. We had high hopes of all the kids going to sleep so we could enjoy some board games during the afternoon, but it was not to be. As a result, we are back home already. Still - definitely a fun day. Thanks for the grub Keans!