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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Stone Cold

Tricia Jo Webster

Tell me you weren't totally crushing on the Olympic curlers last winter. Those pants. Those sweeping motions. And, oh, the way they could make those heavy stones glide accross the ice like a hot knife through butter. 

I, for one, stayed up way past my bedtime more than once just so I could check out the action on the ice. For a few weeks after the Olympics ended I even toyed with the idea of picking up the sport. But then I was like, "Really? How does a person go about 'picking up a sport' like curling?" It's ridiculous. It's absurd. It makes no sense … and that's probably why the idea has never really left my mind.

So, because sometimes the universe drops stuff in your lap when you least expect it … there I was at Bon Bon Saturday night. I randomly picked up a flyer from the counter and eventually got around to looking at it. 

And I was all like, "NO WAY!" I passed it down the row of bar stools so my cronies could take a gander and they were all like, "NO WAY!" Turns out I wasn't the only one harboring a crush for this WTF sport.

The Lilac City Curling Club, is hosted by Spokane Parks & Rec and they're holding hour-long Intro to Curling clinics next Sunday at the Riverfront Park Ice Palace. After that there's a 7-week co-ed rec league that'll meet each Sunday through the middle of December. 

Tell me you're not just a little bit intrigued …