San Jose's Downtown Snow

So, Bay Area people have perhaps heard of Downtown Ice, but Downtown Snow?! Well, the plan on Sunday was to go ice skating downtown, since the Evanescence concert in SJ has been postponed. So Jenny, Kirk, and I met at the rink, got our waivers to sign, and got out our money. Well, then the lady at the register noticed my skates and said, "You might want to take a look at the ice first." I did, and it wasn't ice I saw--it was snow. Apparently, they'd had problems with the freezing unit and thus hadn't run the zamboni. The ice looked like it hadn't been resurfaced in a couple days (and I truly don't think it had). I said no way (much to Kirk's relief, I think). So the three of us in our multiple layers of (California) winter clothing wandered around downtown and ended up having dinner at Johnny Rockets. We also found a really spiffy snowflake patterned light and a snow (bubble) blowing machine. But the ice skating will have to wait. What have I learned? Call the ice rink before travelling and wasting your time (or in Kirk's case, $10 in parking...I guess he didn't hear me when I said Jenn and I parked on the street).