Last Friday, a few of us checked out that World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame, located in the southern part of Colorado Springs. It was free admission for Museum Day 2010, and the ladies were quite excited to see us as we walked in. We had a personal tour around the place and in the end walked away with some literature on the upcoming movie, Rise and postcards autographed by Evan Lysachek, an olympic figure skater. Rise is based off of the 1961 plane crash which killed the entire U.S. ice skating team and many of their family members. This fall all thirty odd members of the team that were on that plane, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
We had a good time matching poses and finding the kodak moments within the museum... yep, we're nerds and proud of it!
The first ice skates....bones attached to the shoe with strips of leather.
This painting was made by a pair of ice skaters skating their routine on a piece of canvas stretched across the ice. Experienced skaters can tell what some of the moves are purely based on how the lines are.
The Hall of Fame with gold medals on loan and all!
Did you know that Vera Wang was at one a figure skater?
I was excited to see things on Dorothy, my grandfather met her while working with the special olympics back in Northern Virginia.
My favorite part of our time there....the trees and grass! Soft! Shade! Deciduous!!!! Content heart!
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