Adventures in Ice Skating

The girls and I went ice skating today. We wanted to try out one of the outside rinks that the city floods and maintains in the local parks. I had decided to get them some crates to use to balance. They offer this at one of the rinks we have been using. The crates snap together pretty well, but I was really high tech and secured them with twist ties just to be sure they didn't come apart. They offer the kids a place to hold on to and balance as they are getting a feel for the ice.

You can see that they moved away from needing them at all after a bit. I figure pretty soon we will only bring one to carry the skates in and sit on while we switch from boots to skates and back again.

It was pretty cold with the wind off the lake. We were bundled up pretty good. after almost two hours of skating we heade home for some hot chocolate to warm us up.