Ice Skating

This year there is an ice skating rink in our town.  It just happens to be about 2 minutes from our house which is great too!   The girls have been asking and asking to go, so for one of their 12 days of Christmas gifts, we gave them the gift of ice skating.  We went at 6pm to discover that they were sold out and we could purchase tickets for 8pm.  Which is what we did. Being sold out was probably a blessing in disguise, because it gave us a chance to go home, layer on some more clothes and make some hot chocolate to take with us.  The place was packed.  They let 160 people in to skate at a time.  And probably 155 of them have never ice skated in their lives, so it is complete chaos for the first hour or so, until people just give up and call it quits.  Mikayla enjoyed it, she lasted the entire two hours.  She went from hugging the wall, to using 5 gallon buckets to eventually taking off some on her own.  She wants to go back and do it again.  Her poor knees where so bruised the next day from hitting the buckets.

Ashlee hugged the wall, went around a couple of times, ended up falling on her wrist and injuring her wrist.  She took a break and eventually went back in and tried to do it with the buckets, she was a little more successful with the buckets, but she has decided that it is not something she would like to do again. Here are pictures I got with my phone they are not great.  Just ignore the blur and red eyes.