Well, since the ice skating went so well...
When our church announced that they were going to have a skate night at the local roller rink, we jumped at the opportunity.
It was the evening of the last day of school before winter break. We still had to work, and the kids had daycare the next day, but we're usually up late on Thursdays anyway, because of Bible study which had wrapped up the previous week.
It was free admission, and $2 skate rental, for 2 hours of exhausting fun!
I had to remember how to roller skate, and helped Josephine around the rink several times. She was having a rough go, but finally let go and went around a couple times on her own towards the end.
Elijah didn't want to hang on to anybody, and did OK, but was pretty slow and fell down a lot. I must say, though, he's got good balance, and was the best at getting back on his feet himself without hanging on to anything/anyone. Actually though, he had more fun playing with the arcade games - even though he didn't have any quarters.
Kaylen was doing pretty well on her own, but did much better when we switched out her roller skates for roller blades. Jock's awesome with roller blades, so he was showing her some tricks. Like ice skating, she looks VERY clumsy when she's skating, but she can get along pretty fast!
I didn't get a chance to actually skate until almost the end (when Josephine let me let go of her hand and go around myself about 3 times), but I still remember how.
A few photos of the fun:
When our church announced that they were going to have a skate night at the local roller rink, we jumped at the opportunity.
It was the evening of the last day of school before winter break. We still had to work, and the kids had daycare the next day, but we're usually up late on Thursdays anyway, because of Bible study which had wrapped up the previous week.
It was free admission, and $2 skate rental, for 2 hours of exhausting fun!
I had to remember how to roller skate, and helped Josephine around the rink several times. She was having a rough go, but finally let go and went around a couple times on her own towards the end.
Elijah didn't want to hang on to anybody, and did OK, but was pretty slow and fell down a lot. I must say, though, he's got good balance, and was the best at getting back on his feet himself without hanging on to anything/anyone. Actually though, he had more fun playing with the arcade games - even though he didn't have any quarters.
Kaylen was doing pretty well on her own, but did much better when we switched out her roller skates for roller blades. Jock's awesome with roller blades, so he was showing her some tricks. Like ice skating, she looks VERY clumsy when she's skating, but she can get along pretty fast!
I didn't get a chance to actually skate until almost the end (when Josephine let me let go of her hand and go around myself about 3 times), but I still remember how.
A few photos of the fun:
Josephine taking a breather with her friends Emily & Abby.
Elijah & Abby holding hands and skating together - too cute!
Yes, a little too fast for me to get a photo of her!
Jock & Chad (Emily & Abby's Daddy) chasing after the kids.
1 comment:
Love skating but we don't get there very often. The cheap family night moved from Monday to Wed and of course Wed is church choir and kid's clubs.
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