We had ourselves a memorable day down at the Center Grounds and their ice skating rink. We went down knowing that none of us were going to be stars of the show, but came home with the sure knowledge that one of us can actually skate pretty well. Little Claire Mo is a going concern on the skates. She fell down (photo one) but got up again and just kept at it. She put in many more laps than the rest of the family added together! Kristin was a trooper and tried her best but I think the face says it all. Stuart is a mad-man on the ice, legs every which way and Peter managed to leave some leg skin there. Don't know how he managed but the blood showed he had success! And sweet little Amy did her best to skate around in her shoe and cast....not a really fun day for her but she had a great attitude all the same.

We then walked a block or so and had some amazing pizza for lunch, collected our tired bodies and came back to the Island. I love these kinds of low key outings that are just designed to have fun. How can you go wrong?

Got home and talked to Linda on the phone, then Emily and James came over with brownies to celebrate the day. You don't do much better than that! So the adults played a few hands of Peduncle and called it a day. Larry even agreed to learn how to play the game and did a fine job holding up his end of the game. Emily, true to form, had the winning hands but we expect that so it is OK. James managed to pull of a substantial win too....but the geriatric set didn't get any hands dealt to them. Bummer....but a good game all the same. It is nice that we are all learning how to play so we can do it en mass. Peter, Stuart and Kristin already play a pretty descent hand of peduncle. (how do you spell that game, I swear that is not right but it is what the computer gave me!)