You can run...
This entry was posted on 1/21/2007 5:24 PM and is filed under Family Fun.
...but you can't hide from hockey. Not in Minnesota. We tried. We did our darndest. Despite living across the street from a park with a hockey rink every winter, we told our kids "You can skate every day and play all the hockey you want, but we're a basketball family and that's the way it is." The kids agreed. They grew up in the gym and even with the rink across the street, hockey was just something you did when you didn't have basketball practice.
For the last few years, none of my kids even had skates. Josie would occassionally go to Centennial Lakes, where you can rent skates, but with their feet growing so fast, skates being so expensive and the winters being so short (the last three years the rink has only been good for about five weeks) it hasn't seemed worthwhile. This year the ice was frozen, melted, frozen and melted again before new years. It finally froze again about ten days ago.
A bunch of Zack's buddies have taken to playing hockey there everyday. Zack rooted through the garage until he found a pair of skates Jay bought about six years ago and has worn maybe twice. He took those and an old left handed stick from goodness knows where and he's been playing down there every evening. The funniest part is the skates are three sizes too small for him.
"Don't those skates hurt your feet?" I asked him.
"I lose all feeling in my feet as soon as I put them on, so it's not a problem." he said.
He even came home from school on Friday, played hockey for an hour and then went back to school to catch the bus to his basketball game. He doesn't have to worry about being too worn out to play; Coach doesn't play him enough for that. He told me that while he doesn't think organized hockey would be any fun at all, pick up hockey is almost as fun as pick up basketball.
It's too bad he was too young to play boot in the backyard. I think he would've been great.
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