17th December

Kat, James and I drove up to nagano today to go ice skating at M-Wave Olympic stadium.

The rink was huge and mostly filled with little kiddies in salopetes, helmets and hockey skates whizzing in and out of everyone else. There was the odd occasion you would hear a familiar 'slosh' noise and see them sliding for miles on their faces and then quicly pick themselves up again without so much as a tear!