Stars on Ice

My mom and my sister and I went to Stars on Ice last Friday. It was amazing! So many great stars were there and I could not believe they were skating right past me, the real deal. There were so many exciting performances, how to comment on them all?

• Sale and Pelletier showed that they still make a great team on the ice. One of their programs was a bit forgettable but their other one had all their signature tricks. Still like last year's 'Scream' the best though.
• Sasha Cohen, whom I had never seen live before, did a fun number in a sassy outfit and another one with Browning and Pelletier dressed up like old-school clowns. Oh, and when they start that number she climbs out of a little box that the boys had just brought out! They used a bunch of balloons and a kite in that number, it was very creative.
  
• Evan Lysacek was there, and it was also my first time seeing him. They kinda made him the 'star' of the show and I was really admiring his smooth edges and grace. He also let loose a bit in a 50's number complete with poodle skirts and Tessa Virtue as the knockout blonde.
• Virtue and Moir. Can't get enough. They did part of their free dance from this year. She is one lucky girl.
• Kyoko Ina is just as adorable as she was on Battle of the Blades. She and Shawn Sawyer were acting goofy together in the 50's number.
• Shawn Sawyer kept his shirt on this year, but still managed to dazzle me with great personality and feats of weirdness. The joy was so evident on his face, no wonder he skipped Worlds to do this. He is truly a performer.
  
• Joannie Rochette! Still strong, beautiful, and flawless. Ah JoRo, please compete next year!
• I appreciate Jeff Buttle more each time I watch him. I thought he was absolutely stunning.
  
• Kurt Browning is still my favourite skater. What else can I say about him? Love that he is still going strong at 44.
  
• It was a surprise (at least to me) that they actually brought in Miki Ando and Takahiko Kozuka! I am not a big fan of Ando's but she is World Champion and her show program was actually much more artistic than her competition programs. Still had too many of her feature move though, what I call the 'two-foot grimace'. And Kozuka was fabulous, again with all this personality that just doesn't come out in his competition programs.
  

Anyway it was a great show and my throat was sore from the rest of the weekend from all the screaming!