Ice skating...

Maxine's school had a field trip to our town's first ice skating rink last week! There were 6 classes of kids learning how to skate. We did shifts and 3 classes were on the ice at a time. I went as a parent helper. The big dome on the left is the indoor ice skating rink and it's really cold in there!

I was amazed that I still remembered how to ice skate. When I was a kid, my Dad would take us up to Pine Valley Reservoir when it was frozen so we could skate. Maxine was a little shaky at first but managed to stop holding onto the wall and skate in the middle. Some of the kids I skated with could not get it! They looked like they were trying to run on the ice and were slipping all over the place. Luckily, I managed not to land on my rear end. Here's Maxine starting to get it.

So if you haven't been to the ice skating rink yet, it was a lot of fun!