Outdoor Rink

Last week, Sophia and Daddy were out walking the trails and sledding the hills behind the house (Regina really is a wonderful place to live in the wintertime) and we decided to take a walk along the frozen creek than runs from our house to the lake in the middle of town. Wascana creek, it's called, and it's where the subdivision we live in (Wascana Heights) gets its name.

Anyway, we were walking the creek all bundled up when we came around a bend and saw that someone had cleared off a good sized ice-rink on the creek. Fantastic! We didn't have skates or anything, but it was quite the adventure regardless. We played on the ice for a good hour or so before we decided that the dog was starting to get a bit cold. Games included walking carefully from one side of the rink to the other; skidding snow chunks across the rink and trying to get them to the other side; sliding a lying-down sophie across the ice; and finally, trying to convince the dog to come onto the ice. The first couple times she ran on without any hesitation, but if you think doggie claws can't get any grip on laminate flooring... well, she didn't venture onto the ice very often after that.

It's so amazing to have such a beautiful open prairie with a gently meandering creek just around the corner from where we live.