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We got up at 5 am this morning to make it on time to an outdoor long-track skate meet in Ottawa. It was -23 when Jones first stepped onto the ice!!! A learning experience for sure, we weren't prepared for the extreme cold. After 5 hours of the competition, we checked into a hotel, then picked up Jones' half-sister R and her mom to go...what else...SKATING on the Rideau Canal. It was R's first Beaver Tail, she enjoyed it, after much grumping in the baby sleigh while she was dragged down the canal behind us!