Out of the hack

Yesterday Nathan and I journeyed down to the Denver Curling Club...

...where, together with our friends Molly & Mark (and about 24 other people), we took a two hour class to learn the basics of curling. 

This was me during our initial practices pushing out of the hack (those things that look like starter's blocks)...just learning to stay balanced. It's tricky, folks!

Altogether, we learned some of the lingo, began figuring out how to deliver the rock (preferably without falling over, lol), made our attempts at sweeping and got to play a couple ends! We ended up tied with the other team, and Nathan managed to score for us with a sweet shot right on the button! I managed, finally, to get my last rock at least into play (past the far hog line), lol. It's further than it looks and difficult to judge how much oomph to put behind it. :)

Thanks to having watched the British coverage of the last winter Olympics, I felt at least familiar with how it all worked...which helped. :)

Basically, it was stinkin' awesome...we seriously had so much fun!!