Ice skating for the first time

 

Starting out







  

Today since Prob had the day off, we decided we would take the children ice skating for the first time. Romeo has been saying that he wanted to try it and since the weather was supposed to be nice we thought it would be a good day for it. We did try taking Romeo once before when he was 5 but back then at that age he didn't have the patience for it and he didn't like it at all. 

I wasn't sure what to expect with how they would like it but to my delight they absolutely loved it! When we first got there Romeo took off running on the ice and fell but just got right back up and off he went again. When Olivia first got on the ice she held onto the walls and had no idea on how to balance herself so Prob and I helped her. At first she wouldn't let go of us but soon enough she built up the courage to let go and skate by herself.

 It was such a joy to watch how happy they were and funny to watch Olivia laugh at herself every time she fell. She would just laugh and laugh. It's good that she was such a good sport because that was pretty much what the experience consisted most of, falling and getting back up, but they didn't care, they had so much fun. After being there about two hours we had to leave to pickup Gabriel who  had spent some time with Grandma and great grandma. The kids didn't want to leave and now this evening all we've been hearing is,"Can we go skating again tomorrow?"

Looks like we are going to have to start fitting skating into our schedule and two nice things about that are that there is a nice rink at the children's school and the fact that the Grandma's coincidentally bought the children ice skates at a garage sale the other day, so it will work out perfectly 

Getting the hang of it

Rice Park

Gabriel and Great Grandma