Capades

Gym Thursday evening. Yesterday morning Mary Beth and I had breakfast at The Arcade. I took a nap afterwards. I watched Alexander Nevsky after that. It was okay, really not my thing and the over the top propaganda feel is a bit offputting. Maybe I'd like Eisenstein's earlier stuff more. In the evening Mary Beth and I went to the zoo and rode the ferris wheel and ate some pretzels and went ice skating. Didn't even know the rink would be open at that time, but it was and it was a ton of fun. Hadn't been ice skating in like 15 to 20 years and even then I hadn't been very often. I think I was better last night than I'd even been before. Super awkward at first and while I never was what you'd call "good," I was moving around pretty well on that small overcrowded rink. When I first got on I managed to get to the other side, just barely, practically clinging to the rail and then had to clear the rink so they could resurface. Waited awhile, but after my first fumblings I was doing pretty okay. The worst were the girls who would make a chain holding hands of three or more. Then the people who just stopped and stood in a group in the middle of the skating (usually taking pictures on the damn iphone). I managed to avoid all the obstacles and did pretty well. I didn't even fall until towards the end (then I fell twice pretty close together, my knees are still sore, I was going pretty fast). I had a blast and I think even more fun than Mary Beth who's a more seasoned skater. Then later at night we did some preliminary gift exchanging and I got a board game called The Castles of Burgundy. Awright!