Bloomington fun

Last weekend, Mel and I traveled down to Bloomington for a visit with friends. The first night we had pizza and then went ice skating.

Helena B.

Ava B. brought her own skates, but she ended up switching to the rentals part way through skating since her skates were too big.

Me with Jill R. and Jill W.

Helena's hat was so cute! We were supposed to arrive at Kelli's house that afternoon wearing a hat, and some people chose to wear them to the rink as well.

Mel and I hadn't been ice skating in 17 years, and I wondered how I would do. ;-) Having roller-bladed since that time though, I found ice skating to be fairly easy.

Jill, Mel, and Kelli

Don't ask me why they were posing like this because I don't know! I'd have to say they are definitely two of a kind!

I'm usually the one taking the pictures, but Mel did get one of me.

Sorry, these shots are a little blurry. It's hard to get good ones with people moving and getting in the way.

Sisters
(Ava and Helena are on the left side of the pic.)

About halfway through the skate time, a guy came out in this machine to put another layer of ice on the rink. It didn't take too long, and then we were back out there ourselves.

Part of the group

How many girls does it take to light a fire? After we went back to Kelli's house, we set the timer on the camera and posed in our hats. Can you see why Jill R. and I didn't wear our hats to the rink? I wanted to wear Melody's hat, but she told me I needed to wear one that was not "me".

I think I put a name to everyone else in the previous pictures except for Rachel (on the far right).

And now for a silly pose!

After posing with our hats, we watched a 4-hr movie. Some of us (Hmm...I wonder who that could be?) didn't make it all the way through and went to bed instead. The next morning, we sang some songs, prayed, and shared what God had been teaching us before heading home. It was an encouraging weekend!