"Soon I'll be thirty; I don't want to be thirty"

Yup, that's a line from the Moxy Fruvous song, "Stuck in the '90's again". The fact that I know it probably gives away my age as well! I turned thirty years old today and while I had some moments of sadness/regret I have generally been making the most of it. The best thing about a birthday is how you can drag it out into a week-long affair :D

So far I've done 2 things out of the ordinary:

• Monday: normally I skate on Mondays but my husband insisted that I had to skip it for some unknown event that we would be attending downtown. I asked somewhat dubiously if it would be better than skating, and he was sure that it would be. Well in fact he was right! He took me to a Vancouver Canucks game :) the first NHL game I have ever been to in fact. When we started walking down the steps to our seat I looked at my ticket and it said ROW: 1 on the bottom but I didn't realize we were really sitting in the front row until we got there! We were sitting in the corner right at the front which made for excellent viewing of some battles and collisions. My observations?

1. NHL players are HUGE!
2. You can see their FACES.
3. They skate really fast
4. Their edges are so deep they spray up snow
5. Their pants are dirty
6. They shoot the puck faster than the speed of light
7. When it hits the glass, it runs around the corner and sounds like a train
8. It also scared the shit out of me!

Anyway we had a great time and the Canucks even won, 3-0. Really fun! Can't wait to go to another one. But I have to sit in the front row from now on.

• Today (Thursday): My husband took me to public skate after my aerobics class at the new rink. I looked forward to it all day! Unfortunately the ice was not too great and I actually fell down several times just doing regular things but I somehow managed to pull off my BEST camel-sit-change-sit combination spin in 16 years >:D And my husband saw it too. When he got tired I didn't mind leaving early because of the ice anyway. Besides, it was just to have some fun right?! On the way home we picked up some birthday cake. AND he had some flowers sent to me at work. Who could ask for anything more?

On Saturday we are going out to a friend's place for an unrelated party but I'm using the birthday as an excuse to sub out my Sunday morning aerobics class and really live it up!