Frozen Fun!!

                   OK, call us old-fashioned but one of the things we love to do in the winter is -

 ICE-SKATE !!

      We take our skates [L.L. Bean Comfort Skates - the BEST!] with us everywhere we go in the winter and when we get a chance we strap them on for some FROZEN FUN!! So I thought I might share photos of our favorite skating spots. This one is at Devil's Thumb Ranch in Colorado and we skated there after a day of nordic skiing so we were really tired but after skating we went in to their lodge and sat by the fire with a glass of wine. Perfect ending to a great day!

         

 

This tiny rink is in the town square at Grand Lake Colorado. We skated there after a day of shopping and then we went back to the mountain cabin where we were staying and built a cozy fire.

This little pond is in the village center at Copper Mountain Ski Area. We ended our day of skiing with a  a little bit of skating there while the sunset and the lights came on - so pretty!

Evergreen Lake is my absolute favorite place to ice-skate. It has been voted "one of the 10 best outdoor skate venues in the US" by Sunset magazine - and you can see why. It is a big lake that is almost all maintained for  skating. The day that we were here it was so warm that we sat on the deck of the lovely log lodge to have a pic-nic lunch. Can you say "FROZEN FUN"?

Another ski area - Winter Park - so after a day on the slopes we hit the ice for a little more Frozen Fun. These seals are intended to help children learn how to skate but Kirk had fun pushing me around on on one!!

 This little rink is in the town park in Grinnell Iowa just a block from where my parents live. So, while visiting them, Kirk and I would take off to ice-skate. We enjoyed ourselves even though it was COLD COLD COLD!! I love the charming gazebo behind the rink and I loved the nice classical music they had playing for us while we skated.

Here Kirk is on a 5 acre lake at 9,500 ft - Keystone Resort - this is another one of our favorites. The restaurants on either side of the lake have rubber matting laid down so that you can keep your skates on, skate over for pizza and then skate back across the lake for dessert and cocoa. What a perfect way to spend an evening!

But Laurance Lake holds a very special place in my heart because it is just a few miles from our home in Oregon . My daughter and I are skating on Christmas Day and we are having a blast! Note the matching mother/ daughter skates.

So, how do you have FOZEN FUN??