Mimi-Update#6

Hey Guys!

Wow, I woke up this morning - I am SO sore from yesterday's workout!!

Today was really fun though, I went ice skating this afternoon!

It was my first time ever, I was really excited!

Here is a little story of my time:

"Good!", I thought, seeing that we (me and my two sisters) were the first ones here.  I had time to practice before everyone got here - i'd never ice skated before and I hate embarrassing myself....it happens to often!  I grabbed my skates from the rental area and headed for the benches.  Tying them on, I realized how nervous I was.  I carefully stood up and walked into the icy area. Grabbing on the sides of the arena I cautiously begin to slowly move my away across the ice.  I was surprised to find that in only two laps, I was ready to fly around the arena.  To me, ice skating wasn't any different from rollerblading! I rollerblade a lot, so - so far this seemed pretty simple.   Soon, people began filing in the big door and skating on the slippery ice.  Some girls from my class were there, I didn't really skate with them - when I skate, I like to go at my own speed....not feeling pressured to slow down or speed up.  I lapped them several times :P.  As the day went on, I was really getting the hang of it!!  Since I had never ice skated before, I wanted to skate as much as possible before we had to leave. Two things held me from accomplishing this.  

#1 - I got HUGE blisters on both of legs...from the skates.  They hurt really bad - even with band aids on them.  So every-so-often I would take TP and stuff in in my skates to keep the skates from pushing on my blisters.

#2 - This little girl walked up to me when I was changing my 'TP' and asked for some help.  I asked her what kind of help she needed....she wanted me to hold her hand the rest of the time.  I had no idea who she was but i decided to help her.....I know this sounds mean - but I hate going slow....it kills me....so when we had done a good 6 laps I asked if she was OK.  She said she was and so I began to skate again.  Well, I guess she wasn't ready.  She asked for my help again and I ended up helping her for the rest of the time.  (only 1hr).  SO that kinda stunk cause i nvr go ice skating but oh well!

BUT all in all - ice skating was a blast!! i had so much fun!!

So thats pretty much what I did today - I'm really glad its the weekend though!

OH! tomorrow i'm going to see 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'!

I can't wait!

Everyone have a happy weekend!

~ Mimi Elise