winter wonderland

while trying to enjoy all that the city has to offer during these dreary winter months steve and i decided to give ice skating a whirl last weekend. sidenote: this is where most people would post a cutesie little picture of themselves gliding along the ice hand in hand. and actually, that was my plan...keyword: was. let me explain. steve is such an athletic guy, except when it comes to anything dealing with balance and/or coordination. don't get me wrong, i'm no nancy kerrigan, but i am able to do the basic starting, stopping, and a little twirling here and there. so i knew that this would be an adventure as we paid for our skates and 2 hours of rink time. after 15 minutes and 1 very rough lap consisting of lots of flailing arms & wall hugging steve needed a break. our 2 hours of "fun" soon turned into 45 minutes of sore knees, feet, and ankles that required frequent breaks. so there is no cutsie picture mainly because i skated solo for a majority of the time. so instead here's a snapshot of the two of us from the bleachers, resting. good news: afterwards we went to the ram for our favorite dessert which in turn, made all lower body aches and pains fade away. hopefully there's a ram in paoli, indiana...as we're going to try skiing this wknd and will likely need a sweet treat to help alleviate the pain that i'm sure is to come!


lastly, yet another picture not included is steve with his birthday cake. why? well, i'm a little embarrassed to say that i placed the wrong number of candles in the shape of the wrong age...whoops. apparently steve is 28 and holding. regardless, happy 29th birthday steve!