Ice Skating

Last Sunday was a very exciting day for me - we had our first family trip to the ice skating rink! Julia has been wanting to try it out for awhile and I love to skate, so we found a rink that had a parent/child skate time open and decided to give it try.

The venue may not have been the best choice as "parent/child skate" apparently means "adult/younger person hockey practice" but it turned out pretty well. I was happy that neither Julia or Benjamin was phased too much by the hockey players and pucks flying around us. (Andrew and I were a different story and made sure that Benjamin, at least, had on his bike helmet.)

I was surprised that they did not have double blade skates but they did not. So Julia used a pair of regular figure skates.  She started out a little uncertainly but we found her a milk crate to push around and after 10 minutes or so of that she gained a lot of confidence - enough to try and succeed in skating to me unassisted!

Benj also got in on the skating. He was gliding around on his sneakers for awhile but also wanted to try on the hockey skates that they had given us for him. So he did and while he couldn't stand up on them I think he was happy he just got a chance to try them out!

We skated for about half an hour of forty five minutes before Julia said her feet were getting tired. I wanted to make sure we didn't end up with blisters on our first attempt so we called an end to the skating but everyone agreed that we need to go again soon!