It feels like Michigan...

Puja mumbled as Mona sped out of the parking lot of the Skate Deck tonight after participating in Santa Skate. We both agreed. It is freezing - hovering in the 20's - it feels more like Michigan than Washington. It's some of the coldest weather we've experienced in decades.

This morning when I got up to go to Rec League, it was freezing with not a single person on the street. It's amazing how the same weather that you experience in Cleveland - which doesn't make you think twice - causes you to change your mind 4 times. Deciding to go, not to go, to go, not to go and in the end you go and only 4 other souls braved the frozen streets and bright, sparkly, cold day to skate. Crazy.

Tonight at the 3rd annual Santa Skate, skaters, friends and family got dressed up, braved the cold and be jolly. We skated, enjoyed a potluck and raised $650+ for a woman's shelter (!). We had a very amusing "white elephant" gift exchange in which my swap was taken - I had hoped to hold on to my first swap (skulls and cross bone ice cube tray and toast band aids!) for the first season of SNL. It's always funny the few gifts that everyone wants -homemade things are always the most coveted. It was a fun evening. Even if it was as cold as Michigan.