Ice Time Crunch

[NB: read all the way down before panicking!]

I didn't skate yesterday or today due to a bad cold I have. However, I just got this email passed along to me:

ATTENTION ADULT SKATERS
AND
FIGURE SKATERS:

Beginning next Monday, January 17, all Monday and Tuesday
afternoon skating will be canceled indefinitely.

This includes the following ice times:

Monday and Tuesday Adult Skate - 12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday Public Skating - 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Monday Freestyles: 1:50 - 2:50 p.m.,
2:50 - 3:50 p.m.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday Freestyles: 2:15 - 3:15 p.m.
3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

The building will be closed until 5 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays from now on.
Thank you for your patronage and we apologize for the inconvenience.

This is majorly bad news. First of all I have lessons scheduled for Mondays which will have to be rescheduled. Secondly, with 6 hours of freestyles going away the remaining ones are going to be a zoo. Yikes. This is not good.

Update: I should read more carefully. The 5 p.m. Monday freestyle should continue since it says the building will OPEN at 5 p.m. So maybe it will still be an option. Of course it's still *5* hours of freestyles going away. For me it also means competing with all of Anna's other students for her valuable time. Eeep.

UPDATED UPDATE: I just got an email that there's been an update to the change of hours:

To all Polar Ice Skaters:

Beginning next Monday, January 17, 2005, all Monday and Tuesday afternoon skating will be cancelled indefinitely.

This includes the following ice times:

Monday and Tuesday Adult Skate - 12:00-1:20pm

Monday and Tuesday Public Skating - 1:30-5:00pm

Monday Freestyles: 1:50-2:50pm 2:50-3:50PM

NEW FREESTYLE SCHEDULE FOR MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS BEGINNING JANUARY 17:

MONDAY 4:00-5:00PM

5:00-6:00PM

6:10-7:10PM

TUESDAY 4:00-5:00PM

WEDNESDAY 1:50-2:50PM

2:50-3:50PM

4:00-5:00PM

THURSDAY 2:15-3:15PM

3:15-4:15PM

FRIDAY 1:50-2:50PM

2:50-3:50PM

4:00-5:00PM

5:00-6:00PM

SATURDAY 7:10-8:10AM

POWER 8:10-8:40AM

8:50-9:50AM

SUNDAY 9:00-10:00AM

10:00-11:00AM

So -- don't quite know what to make of that, but it's only 3 hours of freestyle cut instead of 5. And two adult skates, one of which I usually tried to make. Anna's going to have a fun time figuring out a new schedule for all this. Phew.

As yet there is nothing on the Polar Ice website about the changes.