Wed, Jan 26 2011 by Vanessa.

Yesterday John and I arrived at the ice rink to find very few cars parked out front.  SCORE!  We’ll have the entire rink to ourselves, we said almost in unison.  Grand illusions of skating backwards, practicing two foot turns without worry of falling on someone and enjoying the peace and quite of a slightly chilled ice rink with only a few other skaters danced through our heads.  We quickly walked up to the front door, scampered up to the entrance window to get our passes initialed and then saw the mass of young children skating counterclockwise around the rink.

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Sat, Jan 08 2011 by Vanessa.

Usually I refuse to make a resolution for the New Year because really … if I’m only resolving to improve my life one day a year things aren’t going to go so well for me.  However this year is different.  For 2011, I really do want to improve my blogging consistency.  In thinking about the contents of today’s blog I realized that I never wrote about my surfing experience in Costa Rica!  How horrible is that?  I took a trip all the way down to Costa Rica with my best friend to learn how to surf and I never captured the details for posterity.  I guess blog post #2 for 2011 has been identified!
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