In His Natural Habitat

Ahh, what a weekend. I've been wanting to have a date with my husband for the last several weeks but things keep coming up and we keep having to reschedule. This weekend however, we finally had our date and it was a wonderful break from all of the busyness to reconnect with each other. Our plans were as follows; go ice skating around 2pm and dinner in Espanola at some point. In true Liberty fashion nothing ever seems to work out the way we hope.

We got to the rink at about 2pm only to find that there was a hockey tournament going on, which meant no public skating until 7pm-ish. Jim was rather hungry at this point so we decided to go to Espanola for a quiet dinner and eventually end up back at the ice rink. Dinner was very tasty and we finished early enough to go back to the house and relax. We were actually at the house long enough to watch a few movies. Eventually we did end up at the rink again, only to find the tournament was running about an hour late. Not wanting to drive back home again we decided to just stay at the rink and watch the rest of the tournament.

For those of you that don't know Jim very well (or Canadians in general) he's a huge hockey freak. So it was certainly a treat watching his face light up while he got to watch some live hockey. Okay, I realize it was just girls playing, but he still enjoyed himself. Oh, and since we got to the rink so early once the tournament was over and ice was resurfaced Jim and I were the first ones on the ice. Not only that, for about 15 minutes we had the entire rink to ourselves...extremely peaceful.

So anyway, I took a few pictures of Jim skating...or should I say Jim in his natural habitat. I'm not sure how well you can tell, but it was snowing while we were skating (Los Alamos is home to the only regulation outdoor rink in the state).

I think this is a great picture of Jim! You can tell he is really enjoying being on the ice.

Can you see all of the wonderful snow in the background? That's the accumulation of the last several snow storms and once again it's snowing tonight.

In the end our date was really nice even though it didn't start out as planned.

For me it was a rather busy weekend as I spent most of the weekend at the office finishing up my quarterly reports (with the exception of Saturday afternoon). However, you'll be happy to hear that all of my year-end reports have been completed, my quarterly reports have been completed, and the auditors could walk in tomorrow and I wouldn't blink an eye. At last my hard work has finally been completed and I can spend the rest of the month relaxing...or so I hope. So with that said, I decided to take the next few days off from work so that I may mentally calm down...I'm so looking forward to doing nothing for the next couple of days.