Sychronized Skating Competition

The Ajax Ice Waves sychronized skating team had their first competition of the year called the Bill Phillips in Stratford. It was a bit early in the year and the club was trying to fit in extra practices. So Detta and I headed to Stratford after practice on Friday night. I was not very sure about driving there in the dark. I have never driven to Stratford and there was talk that there was the possibility of a big snow storm in that area.

But we made it safely. The snow just started after we past Kitchener so it wasn't too far after that. Of course I ran out of windshield wiper fluid!! We checked in and found out we were in the motel part of the 'hotel'. So we would have to bundle up everytime we went from the room to the hotel. The breakfast was good, a nice selection.

Then we headed for the arena. Detta was skating Sat and Sun. They did very well on their first skate. From the looks of it, a lot of teams hadn't removed elements that are no longer allowed. There were a lot of changes made by Skate Canada to the program this past year. But after the second skate our team was 8th out of 12.

Unfortunately all the pictures I have are taken through the netting for hockey games.