Winter Sports

Don't worry.  I know today is April Fool's Day, but this is a real post, not a trick.  This winter was extremely mild (read: lame) and so we didn't ever have a chance to enjoy any snow.  We even bought Sophie some real snow pants, which she never got to use.  So, in lieu of playing in the fluffy white stuff, we turned to the smooth, frozen white stuff for our entertainment.

We were able to go to two hockey games to support our friend Alisa.  Alisa was the only senior on, AND the captain of, the Harvard Women's Ice Hockey team!  The first game we went to was against BU, at BU and was part of an annual hockey tournament called the Beanpot.  These are our attempts to get a good picture (we failed):

Sophie had fun running up and down the rows, although she did narrowly miss getting hit by a puck (!) and Loren and I enjoyed watching the game.  I was actually surprised by how exciting it was and really enjoyed spectating.  Unfortunately Harvard lost, but our tickets were free (courtesy of Alisa) so we counted it as a successful outing.

Only Sophie and I went to the second game, which was Harvard's last regular season home game and was against Yale.  Harvard won this time, Alisa got sent to the penalty box and they had a heartfelt senior tribute to her at the end of the game, so it was really great!

Sophie took this picture!

After watching others skate, we decided to try it for ourselves.  We first went to a small rink at Harvard that was put up in celebration of the school's 375th anniversary.  375 years, wow!  We went with our friends Alex and Celeste.  It was Sophie's first time ice skating and she was pretty hesitant, but as long as people were holding on to her, she did alright.

Our second ice skating excursion was at the Boston Common Frog Pond.  I have wanted to go ice skating here for a long time, so I'm glad we were able to do it before moving.  Because of the warm weather the rink actually ended it's season early, so we made it on the last day!  I could tell that Sophie was more comfortable on the ice this time and she was able to skate between Loren and I by herself a few times.