Winter wonderland in our nations capital

One persons winter wonderland is the next persons winter nightmare. At the 8pm session we watched people skate shuffle around the tiny bit of ice which is trying to pass as a skating rink. Crowded groups shuffled around the edges for 90 minutes of fun.

What was fun, was to return after 11pm midway through the 'urban dance party' session. Not surprisingly, there was much more room to skate because it was freezing out. Equally unsurprising was that the entertainment factor was upped by super stars of ice - in particular a young lady who had a few too many drinks and was spinning her way around the rink, randomly raising her legs in a pirouette to less randomly falling over (loudly). She looked so confident and ungraceful, and I'll never forget her happy face and wonky pirouettes, only to disappear suddenly behind the barrier mid fall, then to get up again with a drunken crooked smile.