I think I mentioned in one post about the city hiring a company from Chihuahua state to set up an artificial skating rink for the Christmas Season.
The night of the Christmas Parade you couldn't get close to the rink to take a picture and since then I have never had the camera with me when I stopped to watch the kids learning to skate and having fun. They were having trouble keeping the ice frozen so they rigged up a tarp over the rink at one point, unfortunately they tied part of it to the viewing stands. This later caused a mishap when a very strong wind gusted one day/night and tipped the viewing stand over with some minor injuries to some of the people in the stands.
I have been meaning to take pictures of the rink; but kept forgetting and yesterday I realized that the rink was supposed to have closed the day before. Darn, as usual a day late and a dollar short, story of my life. I took my camera with me anyway when I headed to centro for my Spanish class and the rink was still up or part of it anyway. I guess the city must have owned the boards around it or the company hadn't taken them down yet. It was definitely closed and the rink sat melting in the sun, looking rather forlorn without all the laughing happy children on it.
So the rink is done for this year, who knows what they will come up with next year, perhaps a man made hill to slide down on inner tubes like Mexico City had this year?
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| Melting in the sun. |
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| The 3 Presidents standing guard over the rink, not something they ever imagined doing I bet. |
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| I got a chuckle out of the view of palm trees and ice rink in 1 photo. |
