Ice Skating

The kids had an administrative day off school this past week so I took them all ice skating at a local skating rink.  Anna had been ice skating once this past year with her friends but none of the other kids have ever ice skated.  I like ice skating and can get by pretty well but am not super good at it.  But we gave it a try anyway.  We rented these plastic walkers to help some of the new skaters.  I only got two because Matthew and Anna insisted they wouldn't need one since they can rollerblade pretty well.  And Anna said she'd take Emma around.

Here we are watching the Zamboni

When we first got out there hardly anyone else was there.  Here's Grant using the walker.

He wasn't afraid and had a lot of fun.  Matthew going around on the wall.

We had the whole place to ourselves for a short while.

Right away John and Emma were really scared to go on the ice.  They tried it and then cried and wanted to get off.  So they sat in the stands and watched for a long time.  I had to take their skates off so they could sit in the metal stands.

After watching everyone for over an hour, John decided he would give it another try.  Anna helped him maneuver around with the walker.  He had a lot of fun after trying again.

Hooray for second chances.

Emma saw that John was having fun and gave it another try with the walker also.  I skated her around and she did have some fun there at the end.  Matthew and Anna kept taking the walkers from the younger kids, so I wished I had rented more of them.  Grant was a good sport and would always give his up when someone needed it, even though he couldn't skate very well without it.  We had a good time and by the end were all tired and ready to go.  The skating session was two hours long and we were there the whole time.

Afterward we went to Dairy Queen to get some blizzards to go along with our ice skating day.

It was lots of fun.  Maybe we can get Scott to come with us next time.