You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Nothing to do on a Friday night? Why not take up a new sport? After participating in my two favorite activities, namely; shopping and eating Hatch Family pots de creme, Hali and I ventured over to the Olympic Oval in Kearns. $10 gets you two 2 hour lessons in curling. If you don't believe me you can check it out at www.utahcurling.com

I am always up for new thing, especially when I have someone else to experience them with. Going with Hali seemed like a fine plan, until we arrived and they separated the people who had been the week before from those of us who didn't even know what the game consisted of.

I was on my own. It was just me...and curling. As I stood there feeling incredibly alone amidst the strangers who stood with me on the ice, I thought that this was possibly the silliest thing that I had ever done.

However, by the end of the night I was sold. I wish I could describe it, but every time I try people laugh at me because they just can't wrap their heads around curling. But you should give it a try.

We were pros by the end of the evening. We played a game with the "old-pros". Hali and I were stellar sweepers. I am pretty sure that between her stone delivery skills and our sweeping talent, we single-handedly won the game. It was amazing.

I personally, am going to have to go back because I didn't get a chance to be the Skip.The Skip is the Yeller. That is what I called it, before I was so intimately acquainted with the sport. They get to yell at people. "Sweep! Harder, faster, harder, faster!" I love this idea. I used to just laugh about curling and tease about starting my own team just because it was funny. Now, it is more than a tease. This is it folks, the future is in curling.