Cautiously optimistic

Tonight was a really good ice skating session... two solid hours of moderate-to-heavy exercise, lots of practice, and I landed a half-flip for the first time :-). We're starting to work on skating programs to music, too...

(That's a jump, where one does a 3-turn around, plants the pick of one skate and leaps up and around 180-degrees while doing a bunny-hop.)

And I managed (barely) to not lose someone dear tonight...