I went ice skating tonight and it was hilarious.  I think the over all experience of ice skating for amateurs is quite painful on many levels.  First: You have to get your skates on and walk into the ice without falling or crushing someone else's toes Then: you have to get on the ice without falling or cutting off the already skating people in the rink Then once skating you still have to focus on not falling and actually look like a total fetus trying to walk all over again.  If you look around... everyone's faces are either focused or scared to death haha Seriously though.. no one really knows what they are doing except those few people who actually ice skate or play hockey and try to show off skating between everyone else backwards and such.  But quite frankly, I envy them because I want to know how to slush my feet sideways and spray the ice like they do on TV.  Also, ice skating is tricky when it comes to what to wear because you get all bundled up but then once you start skating it gets hot and so you start to sweat under all your layers! Theres no good way to fall and I felt like I was in a war movie tonight as people would just drop left and right of me continuously as I skated on.  You want to laugh and just when you do you find yourself flat on your butt too! But I still can't help but bust out laughing when I see that grown man lose every ounce of confidence he had because he cannot control his legs! haha Ice skating is altogether just a funny situation to think about and definitely a GO TO place for people watching =)