The Winter Olympics opening ceremony is tonight. Thank you NBC for televising this. Thank you MIlano Cortina for hosting it. It's hard for me to imagine how much preparation goes into hosting the Olympics but it must be an incredibly long and complicated process.
There are so many things I love about the Winter Olympics. Figure skating and and speed skating are among my favorites. Then there are all of the down hill speed competitions on skis, snowboards and, never forget, the luge sleds.
I haven't been on ice skates for years but when I was a young teen I had my own ice skates, white of course, and we skated quite a bit during the winter. We would skate at the Coliseum, on the hockey rink when there weren't games scheduled. It was a wonderfully large space.
One winter a heavy rain flooded a field across the road from our house and then it froze hard. For a few wonderful winter weeks we had our own private rink. The field ice was much rougher than hockey rink ice and I can remember lying in bed at night after a long time on the ice and feeling my feet vibrating, like they did on the rough ice.
All of this is to say I love ice skating. It is my favorite part of the Winter Olympics.
This year though there is an added bonus for me as I watch the Olympics. On my first trip to Europe, about 15 years ago, I spent some time in Milan, and seeing the Duomo and other famous landmarks on TV this evening brought back some wonderful memories.
Enjoy the Olympics, I know I will.
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