The best time I've ever had sweeping

[klwilliams]

Remember how my company played cricket a few months ago? Today we went curling. And you know what? Curling is an actual sport, not, say, a stand-around-and-drink sport. There are two parts to it. The first part, that I had a hard time doing because of my knee, involves squatting down and balancing (on ice) before shoving off with one foot and pushing a 42-pound stone down the ice. The other part, which I was surprisingly good at, involved hurrying along (on ice) in front of the stone, sweeping the ice to make the stone move farther. Or so they claimed. Anyway, it was a lot of fun, I only fell down once, and my team won, so it was a fun time. And boy, are my muscles tired.

Comments

Where is there curling around here?

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

Boo-boo loves it.

Re: Where is there curling around here?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

There's a whole curling league in the Bay Area. We played at San Jose Ice, over by Kelley Park in San Jose.

Re: Where is there curling around here?

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It's Canada's official national sport!
But don't tell CBC that. (:

[galeni.livejournal.com]

"Hurry hard!"

Congratulations on throwing your first rock.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I must admit I've always thought it looked like hard work.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay curling! (It is Scotland's other national sport; the UK does rather well at international championships, but when you hear them interviewed afterwards they're allll Scottish.)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

My team guessed (before looking it up on the internet) that Scotland had invented curling, because they invent all the weird things. Haggis, caber tossing, curling: it all makes sense together.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Hey, it sounds like fun!

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

But did you wear the PANTS?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Is that the horribly slippery bootie thing? If so, yes. And it was slick.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

nope. The Pants of Curling!

http://piratesandninja.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/nway_curl_pants.jpg

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Ow! My eyes!

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

You gotta be really serious to dress in those pants!

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I actually remember the Norway team's curling outfit from the Olympics, which goes to show how loud the design was. (Yes, I watch curling on TV and I am not even Canadian.)