gemfyre | Ice

It was a rather spur of the moment decision, but I went ice skating last night.

Cockburn ice rink now slugs you $17 for a session - whether or not you're skating. I wasn't sure if I should skate, due to my wobbly knee. I was thinking of maybe stealing someone else's skates and doing a few metres to see how I felt and then deciding if I should hire skates or not. But when I saw the pricing structure I figured, oh well, I guess I'm gonna try to skate again, it's been 10 years.

I remember the theory, but lack the balance. My knee also twinged at times and made me nervous, I was deathly afraid of falling over and doing something to it.

I did many laps of the straight, skating down one side, getting off the rink and walking back to the first gate and skating down it again. I did do one full lap with Caris . Yay. On those parts where there weren't people at the wall I was doing rather well, I guess because I knew I could grab the wall at any time I didn't need it. But as soon as I reached a clump of people I'd have to stop and gingerly edge my way around them for fear of losing my balance and having nothing to hold on to if I did.