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- Jul 13, 2014
So today was the ice show at Ion. I went with one of my friends and the stage looked quite cute with all the holiday decorations. There was a crooner/holiday singer there to sing holiday songs. He was great, but the problem was that the first act was mostly him singing and not as much skating. Towards the end of the first act, there was a couple skating to “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” It felt a bit cringe to me until they stopped skating and the male skater started talking how much the female skater meant to him. Then he got down on one knee and proposed to her. She said yes!
The 2nd half was better paced and had a lot more skating. Elizabeth Tkachenko and Alexei Kiliakov Jr. of Israel brought a lot of energy. So did Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin of Georgia and Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spirodonov of the USA. Then Ilia came out. Oh my goodness. So much energy is his “I Feel Good” EX program. He was feeling the music so well. After he skated, the singer went back on the microphone and mentioned that it was Ilia’s birthday. And of course, everyone sung happy birthday. There was a little girl who came out with a small cake with candles. Looked like it had chocolate frosting on it. He blew out the candles and then the final group of everyone came out. There were other skating groups in between and performing. Some with kids younger than 5. And they’re better than I’ll ever be.
Overall, it was a great show. Like I said, the first half could have been done better. Also before the show, Ilia was talking to Kiliakov, Tkachenko, and Spirodonov. I wanted to go over to say hi, that I was the one who gave him the hat with his name on it at the SOI M&G in Baltimore, happy birthday, and good luck at the GPF. But I was too nervous to walk over there and I didn’t want to interrupt them and look like a weirdo. Oh well. Here’s are some pictures of Ilia from the show
The 2nd half was better paced and had a lot more skating. Elizabeth Tkachenko and Alexei Kiliakov Jr. of Israel brought a lot of energy. So did Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin of Georgia and Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spirodonov of the USA. Then Ilia came out. Oh my goodness. So much energy is his “I Feel Good” EX program. He was feeling the music so well. After he skated, the singer went back on the microphone and mentioned that it was Ilia’s birthday. And of course, everyone sung happy birthday. There was a little girl who came out with a small cake with candles. Looked like it had chocolate frosting on it. He blew out the candles and then the final group of everyone came out. There were other skating groups in between and performing. Some with kids younger than 5. And they’re better than I’ll ever be.
Overall, it was a great show. Like I said, the first half could have been done better. Also before the show, Ilia was talking to Kiliakov, Tkachenko, and Spirodonov. I wanted to go over to say hi, that I was the one who gave him the hat with his name on it at the SOI M&G in Baltimore, happy birthday, and good luck at the GPF. But I was too nervous to walk over there and I didn’t want to interrupt them and look like a weirdo. Oh well. Here’s are some pictures of Ilia from the show
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