Just Making The Rest of The World Jealous
POSTED December 5, 2009 BY Christine McAvoy
Robson Square, Christine McAvoy Photography
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December 5th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
man I cannot WAIT to go skating here!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Me too! Last time I skated there was almost exactly ten years ago to the day.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
i walked down those stairs and had to check it out..it made me want get ice skates again, then i remembered how hard ice skates are on the inside of the skates…do they make ice skates with a soft-running-shoe-like inside? i’d be into that.