gurufoto.net / When I was 12 years old, I went to Texas to visit a family friend with my mom. While in Houston, we stopped by a mall that had an active ice skating rink - in August, in Texas. It was 104 outside, and I thought I'd really seen something. All of that is old hat now - it gets up over 125 in the summer here, and there's an ice skating rink in this mall - and there's a ski slope just down the road.

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