The Joys of Ice Skating

During the holiday break we had an opportunity to go ice skating with the youth. It was so much fun to strap on the skates and get onto the ice. It is a sport that I only have the opportunity to do once or twice a year and one that I thoroughly enjoy. Gliding around makes me feel young and inspired and gives me the enthusiasm to try new things such as skating backwards, turning in circles and even stopping quickly. It sounds weird that this 4000 year old sport could give me such joy but the idea that I could try something that they do in the Olympics thrills me.
In the end my fingers and toes are frozen, my ankles ache and my thighs are sore but I have the exhilaration that for a few hours I was like those beautiful figure skaters I remember watching as a young child.