Creek Skating

The winter I was 13 or 14, it rained really hard one day mid-January. The rain that day caused the creek that runs through our pastures to overflow, (then again, sneezing in the right direction would cause that creek to overflow). The rain then turned into snow overnight when the temperatures dropped. Wet roads turned into icy roads and we had school off the next day. My friend and I discovered the swollen creek had completely frozen over, down to the rocks. We spent the entire day skating on a frozen creek in old sneakers. Who needs an ice arena you pay ten dollars just to skate on when nature gives you a free one in the back yard? We probably had more fun that day than any other middle school kid on a Friday night.