yay except it's only until 3 pm. Learn-To-Luge, though.

[labrujah]

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/upcoming_events/events.php?id=20992

Activities include: snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, snow tubing, snow
sculpting, children's entertainment, learn-to-luge, ice carving and ice
slide.

Free ice skating:  8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. on Friday, January 7, and
Saturday, January 8 at Lasker Rink in Central Park (enter at 110th and
Lenox Avenue).

Note: If the weather is too warm to create man-made snow, we will have
Winter Festival on the no-snow date January 15 - 16.

Comments

when will it SNOW???

[pivovision]

you know i have ice skates in the closet and the only place i have ever skated in NYC is Chelsea Piers! (once in july, which was awesome)

...and another skating rink that i don't think exists anymore that was also in the top of a building.

i love winter festivals. i recently watched this awesome nbc movie called SNOWBEAST from the 70s which was all about a winter festival being tormented by an abominable snowman. i love the SNOWBEAST.

Re: when will it SNOW???

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

I love Heat Miser. Having an ice rink in the top of a building is genius. I don't think I've ice skated since I can't remember when.

[never-the-less.livejournal.com]

for real, learn to luge? during the 84 winter games,* i was SOOOOOO into the idea of becoming a professional luger. i used to lay back as far as possible on the swings and pretend i was going down the icy track. luckily this was while i was still in the safe haven on my elementary school where it was cool to be nerdy, because i could imagine that this aspiration would have been a great target for all the middle school kids who loved to pick on me. anyway, i am definitely marking this one on my calendar. thanks!

*did you remember that the winter and summer games used to be in the same year? i didn't, but i swore that i was somewhere around 5/6 when i wanted to be a luger, but i also remembered that there were summer games in 84 (mary lou retton). in case you ever need it for a trivia night or something, they had two winter games in the course of two years -- in 92 (albertville, france) and 94 (lillehammer, norway) to make the shift. i had to look it all up to figure out what was going on.

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

I love how detail-oriented and accurate you are. It cracks me up.

I have some friends who got really into Street Luge. They made their own street luges. Too bad they aren't in NY, I'd hook you up.

[never-the-less.livejournal.com]

street luge sounds fun but i already have enough injuries!

as for the detail thing -- yeah, it's a curse and a blessing as they say -- though mostly a curse. i have about zero ability to just do anything approximately, and as a result it takes me twice as long to do something (although i don't have to redo it), which makes me a bad worker bee. i wish i had a job that could take better advantage of it -- sometimes i feel like i should be a librarian or something. but i'm glad it cracks you up.