We hosted our 7th Annual Family & Friends skating party. We had 27 in total this year. We had a great time. Here is Susan and Aidan.
Angela and Aidan.
Steve and Aidan.
Aidan fell asleep on Angela.
Miranda, Steve, and Aidan.
Mark.
Gaila and Julie.
Gillian and Farriyan.
Susan.
Brandon, Claudia, and Sarah.
Claudia’s squad.
Angela’s squad.
Gillian’s squad.
Family squad.
Sister squad.
The group photo.
For the sixth time in the last seven years we rented the ice at Meadowvale Four Rinks over the break. The girls had their friends out for some skating and shooting the puck around.
Angela’s squad.
Gillian’s squad, that’s Farriyan and Evan in the middle.
Claudia and her squad.
Our family skating photo (thanks Dylan!)
We did a group shot this year.
We hosted our almost annual family and friends skating, this was the 5th year we have done it, we had a break last year. We rented the ice at Meadowvale 4 Rinks and had family and the girls friends out for a fun time.
Claudia and a few of her friends.
Alex and Danny.
Emi.
Gillian.
Claudia.
Gillian’s friends.
Angela and Dylan.
Gillian and her girlfriends.
Claudia and her friends from school.
Angela and a couple of friends from her residence floor.
Our new blog photo (thanks to Dylan).
We were the last group on Rink 4 for the night, so they didn’t kick us off right away.
It was a great evening, looking forward to the next one.
We hosted our 4th Annual Skating Party at the Meadowvale Four Rinks.
We had a good turnout.
Katie.
Emi.
Gillian and her girlfriends.
The girls with Katie.
We had our annual skating night at the Meadowvale 4 Rinks. We still had 22 people out despite the snowy weather. A couple of gillian’s friends from residence that live in Milton and Georgetown were able to make it. Here are the Torrao girls having a rest on the bench.
Steve and Miranda.
Susan, Gillian and Claudia.
Gillian with Brittany, Julia, Amanda and Marcus.
Angela.
Katie and Claudia.
Claudia.
Katie taking a rest.
We rented the ice at Meadowvale 4 Rinks on Saturday night, it is the first of what may or may not become an annual event. We did it last year for the first time, but that was for Gillian’s birthday, so technically it doesn’t count. We invited some family and friends and brought out a few sticks and pucks as well.
Gillian and Marcus, looking like they are set to duel.
We had the ice for 90 minutes from 9:30-11:00 PM.
Stella had a good time.
Claudia playing goal against Alex.
Claudia was looking forward to skating almost as much as Christmas.
Steve dressed up as a Habs elf.
Angela and Katie.
Abbey taking a break.
Katie trying to hang off of the net after watching one of the bigger kids (Emi?) do it. She couldn’t quite reach.
Instead she was hanging onto the net.
Gillian had a bunch of her friends out for the skate.
Our nephew Jesse was in the Trail Daily Times with David. Here is the photo from the papers website. Click on it to read the caption.
Last night while Claudia and I were out we saw a sign for free skating at the Hershey Centre today. It was Free Family Day at the Hershey Centre including skating on the rink, free hot dogs, pepsi products and popcorn. It went from 12-4 pm, we got there around 12:45pm and it was empty. We had our hot dog and drink before skating, not many people on the ice.
Claudia waiting for the zamboni to finish flooding the ice.
The Zamboni.
Even after the flood, there still weren’t a lot of people. Just before the flood there were some of the Mississauga St Mike’s Majors on the ice. There was no sign of Hazel at the rink, but we left around 2:30 pm.
Claudia standing near centre ice. Angela is at Pathfinder winter camp this weekend and Gillian stayed home, so it was just the three of us.
Enjoying our popcorn in the stands.
The portrait of the Queen hangs prominently in the arena.
Gillian had her birthday party Saturday night, it started with dinner at home for her friends followed by skating at the Meadowvale Four Rinks.
A round of “Happy Birthday” from her friends.
Blowing out the candles on her cupcake cake.
We had the ice rented from 9:30 to 11:00 PM.
The birthday girl!
We had a few hockey sticks. Everyone enjoyed taking turns shooting the puck around.
Gillian and Marcus.
Angela taking a rest.
Alex checking on Angela.
Gillian had a great time with her friends.
Carolyn and Alex came for a skate.
There were a few spills.
Gillian and her friends.
Gillian and her friends and family.
It has been awhile since we have gone skating as a family. We found some time today to catch the fun skate at Meadowvale 4 Rinks.
