Great weekend

I haven't got such cheerful weekends as the last one for such a long time, and am going to tell you about this good day.


The day before (on saturday evening) I told Lana I wanted to spend next day skiing and skating, but she wasn't so excited as I expected. She whined to me that she didn't have skiing pants and always had freezing legs and (sorry) butt. I didn't want to have A frozen wife at next day and be responsible for her death  ;)  and... we started shopping. I don't have strong desire to describe this long and not very funny process, but at the end my honey left a huge sport-market 'Atemi' with  new skiing pants in the hand and shining smile. It was a good beginning...


In the Sunday morning (actually it was afternoon, but we had waken up about 3 hours before that ;)) we were standing in the ski rental center in the Victory park and were arguing about what type of skis to rent (plastic or wooden ones). We decided to rent the wooden (actually oldest) ones, assuming that this type will not be as slippery as the plastic one. From our first steps I realized we would not be as fast as I had expected. I am a novice in skiing and knew only a couple of step types, but Lana's even less experience than I have. Nevertheless, it was great, we were skiing throught a pine alley and then went out to the bushy forest with narrow skiing paths. Snow-cowered threes were powdering us with snow when we were skiing nearby. When I became bored with our slow-speed skiing, I ran forward from Lana and then, tired and statisfied, returned back to her. Then we drank hot tea from thermos and ate a chocolate bar with nuts. It was great! After that we returned the skid, paid the rent and met with Lana's parents (who came to ski in that park too). They brought us Lana's skates (which they had borrowed before) and we promised to visit them later in the evening.


After resting at home a while, we took our skates in backpacks and left to Lana's parents for dinner. Such visits had never been very interesting for me, we used to just sit at the table, eating and trying to talk with Lana's mom about something neutral (because my and her, we have very different points-of-view and mindsets, so this always caused very hot argues). But this time, all of sudden, was different. I should tell you it was a rather cold day (about minus 15-20 degrees or so, by celcius) and rather windy too. So after our skiing we were frozen and wanted to drink some hot tea ot something like that. Lana's parents were actually cold after their skiing too and her father decided to buy Russian national strong alcohol drink called 'Vodka'. Actually I DON'T like Vodka and DON'T drink this, but this time I decided to try. I remember about a very good method to ger warm (actually a very ancient Russian method) - tp drink Vodka mixed with black pepper . And so we did. After one tiny wine-glass pf Vodka with black pepper I felt myself better, warmer and cheerful. We were sitting, eating spaghetti with cutlets, making jokes on each other and chatting about all different thingd in the world. Actually it was my most relaxed evening spend with Lana's parents.


After that we went to central city stadium called 'Trud' to skate. We always tend to go there, because it is the biggest skating place in our  city and (pure fact) it has the smoothest ice. There we met with my aunt and our friend and skated together. I don't know why, but yesterday there were very few people. And at the end just 5 people were left! Lana and I, my aunt, Palex (our good friend) and some other guy. It was so romantic: the big empty stadium without light (actually there are no lights when there is no hokkey match) and only five of us. We skated for about 2 hours!


At night we were at home. Tired and happy. We had a shower and went to bed. It was a long and great weekend for me. I hope we will have more holidays like this one...  :)