Ice Skating for the First Time! So I didn't think this through very well. I thought taking all the kids ice skating would be fun. It was a lot harder than I thought. A friend came and kept Josh and her little boy Luke on the side and I had Bradley, Daniel, Eliza, Nathan and our friends Traci and Carmen. That's a lot of kids who don't skate!!!
Eliza holding on to the wall. I tried holding on to their hands, but it was really hard to keep us all up on the ice.
Bradley and Nathan hanging out on the wall. Bradley was the first to get the hang of the skating. He spent a lot of time on the ice, literally! He was skating the best by the time we left. Nathan was either holding my hand or Andy's after he came to find us.
Eliza trying to skate across the ice. It only took about 45-60 minutes for her to get brave enough to head out on the ice.
Eliza
Eliza, Bradley and Bro. Rogers. (His wife was keeping little kids on the side. He and Andy came to find us after they made some church visits.)
Bradley with Daniel coming down the wall behind him.
It took Daniel a little longer to get his ice legs under him, but he was doing really well when we left.
Dad, Nathan, Daniel and Eliza
I was super happy when he got there. My legs and hips were able to fall off!! I might be too old to ice skate with a kids between my legs like this.
I just love the look on his face right here.
It's a "Ah! We better not fall!" look. :)
Dad, Nathan, Bradley, Traci and Bro. Rogers.
Daniel cruising up from behind. We had so much fun skating. I was wishing they had the little walker style things for the kids. It would have made the skating a lot more fun. The kids loved it anyway.
Side Story: Shortly after Andy got to the skating rink there was a boy that crashed out on the ice. He ran into a big guy and went down. The man tried to miss the kid but ended up stepping on his face with the ice skate. The man fell down and hit the back of his head on the ice. The kid got his face cut open from the hair line down to his eye. One of the workers scooped the kid off the ice and skated to the exit. The man laid on the ice for a few minutes before getting up. Then he talked to some people for a few minutes and skated off. I didn't ever see the little boy. Andy was just putting his skates on when the kid came off the ice. His mom was pretty hysterical. Andy went in with them to a room to look at the kid's head. It went clear to the skull! He helped get the bleeding stopped and packed so the boy could be transported to the hospital. Andy told the mom it would be fine for her to drive him to the hospital to get stitches. She was just visiting the area and didn't want to try and drive, so they call the ambulance. After the accident about half the people left. We stayed until the end, but everyone was a lot more cautious!
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