Skating on the Canal

Today was one of the nicest days of winter so far. It wasn't too cold, yet not too warm that the Canal was cold. The high temperature was -6 C, which brought tons of people out onto the Canal. Geofford, Keating, and I started out at the Somerset entrance and we were going to meet Brash and Vero at 5th Avenue where she was going to rent some skates. Unfortunately Keating's skates were too small, and he had just recently gotten stepped on at soccer, so his feet weren't feeling 100% so he turned back around Pretoria Bridge, so only Geoff and I met Brash and Vero at 5th Avenue. When we got there, we found out that there are is only a limited selection of skates, and Vero's size was one of the more popular ones, so only Geoff, Brash and I set out, but before we could get too far, Vero called to let us know that she was able to get a pair of skates in her size. yay! It's a wonder what we would have done before the advent of cell phones.

Geofford and I at the 5th Avenue rest area

The surface of the canal by this time had gotten slightly snow covered due to all the people skating on it, we were thinking it would be great to have zambonis on the ice during the day just so that the ice surface could get nice and smooth for the people skating later in the day. I guess we will just have to get to the canal earlier in the morning to get that freshly flooded ice. We skated to the Bronson St. bridge/Dow's Lake where we got some beavertails and hot chocolate/apple cider.

The sunset at Dow's Lake while we were skating on the canal.