Ice Skating at Rockefeller

Yesterday, wanting to escape from the horrendous amount of projects, Erwin and I went ice skating at Rockefeller with David (he's Spanish, so it's pronounced 'Darr-veed')... really expensive, but I'm so glad we went- today is the last day before the Rockefeller Rink closes for Spring, but it's pouring today, so I guess yesterday was effectively the last day.

And skating outdoors is really so nice... the rink's really small compared to Central Park, but I really enjoyed myself because I could skate better, and the weather was nice and relatively warm... met loads of strangers while skating, a South American guy who couldn't really skate too, so we kept laughing at each other, a professor who was stumbling next to me, when I told her that I was a newbie too, and she said, 'it makes me feel like holding your hand!', so we held hands and skated along, then Erwin came along and held her other hand, and I happily slipped and fell onto the ground. Yes, I fell three times... another time while racing with David, and a third when this guy skated right into me. There were 2 professional skaters in the rink too, one guy doing really graceful moves, and this South Korean guy moonwalking to Frank Sinatra, cool... I had so much fun, skating around with Christian, Erwin, David, looking at strangers, laughing and smiling at strangers seated in the restaurant around the rink who were laughing at my lack of confidence to go too fast...

And guess what? When the rinked closed at 8, they changed the music... and this guy proposed to his girlfriend on the rink... it was so sweet, got down onto his knees and all, before his friend brought a bouquet of lovely flowers. And the whole crowd watching along the sides cheered...


With David... I've nicer pictures, but they're in Christian's camera
It was David's first time ice-skating, so we had a bet to see who would learn how to skate properly first. Well, he was pretty good for his first time, and I lost to him in a race to the side...



Post Ice Skating was nothing but absolute indulgence in food. Gosh, I feel pretty sick thinking about it. We had dinner at an Italian place just off Times Square and the family sized pizza and pasta was HUGE. Thank goodness for the guys' hearty appetites. And I don't really like pizzas, so I was glad to let David have a third slice of it...




We wanted to have dessert at Juniors Cheesecake, but it was closed by the time we walked to Grand Central! We ended up at a diner called Big Daddy's... and there we were, with our waffles and strawberry cheesecake sundae icescream. I can't even begin to describe how big the ice-cream was... underneath huge amounts of whipped cream (according to Christian, it's common knowledge in Australia that whipped cream is made of pig's fat), there was strawberry, stawberry ice-craem and chunks of strawberry cheesecake all mixed... well, it was so yummy then, but on retrospect, I actually feel quite grossed out thinking about how much we managed to eat. Oh, and they had trivial pursuit cards, which we played while waiting for our food... I came up with this brilliant idea that whoever got a question right need not pay, and Christian actually managed to answer my question! I was frantically trying to find questions I could answer, but ... ahh, I'm stupid.


ahhh...look at the HUGE ice-cream. Just looking at it makes me feel fat.


Prata! And my very big bruise from all that falling.

Other than Ice Skating, I shall not talk about my absolutely horrible weekend.

There was a storm today... and the weather forecasts says that it's going to rain everyday this coming week. :( Someone save me from the weather.

And after wasting my weekend away, I just spent the entire night finishing two projects at a go. :S