For a friend's birthday last week we decided to hit up the outdoor ice rink in central Seoul. I figured it would be packed, but I didn't really realize HOW packed. We got there at 4
ish to lace up and we're given passes to come back in three hours- the next possible time they could fit us on the ice. So like mature adults we decided to go to a bar and get our blood flowing a different way. And as one could guess, drinking for three hours only added to the ridiculousness of the outing.
Eventually we made our way back and collected our ice skates, all of which were about two sizes off what they should have been. The rental
personnel asked us if we had gloves and socks, because if not we would have to rent them. Renting gloves?..... that just doesn't seem sanitary. Once on the ice we realized that the skates had probably not been sharpened since they were purchased years back. So with the alcohol
coursing through our veins, the absolute inability to stand on
unsharpened skates, and with half a million small
Korean children running into our legs on their
unsharpened skates, we attempted to skate. No one wiped out-miraculously- but from the picture you can tell I was hanging on by a
thread. Quite the afternoon.
For a friend's birthday last week we decided to hit up the outdoor ice rink in central Seoul. I figured it would be packed, but I didn't really realize HOW packed. We got there at 4 ish to lace up and we're given passes to come back in three hours- the next possible time they could fit us on the ice. So like mature adults we decided to go to a bar and get our blood flowing a different way. And as one could guess, drinking for three hours only added to the ridiculousness of the outing.
Eventually we made our way back and collected our ice skates, all of which were about two sizes off what they should have been. The rental personnel asked us if we had gloves and socks, because if not we would have to rent them. Renting gloves?..... that just doesn't seem sanitary. Once on the ice we realized that the skates had probably not been sharpened since they were purchased years back. So with the alcohol coursing through our veins, the absolute inability to stand on unsharpened skates, and with half a million small Korean children running into our legs on their unsharpened skates, we attempted to skate. No one wiped out-miraculously- but from the picture you can tell I was hanging on by a thread. Quite the afternoon.
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