Ice skating

There is one major difference between public skating in Canada and Arizona. People in Canada can skate... real good. People in Arizona can't skate.... at all. It was so hilariously funny. Adults were tripping and falling all over the place. Dan and I felt rather rusty, we use to go public skating all the time, but obviously there in not a rink on every corner here in sunny AZ so we haven't been for a couple years. We took the kids ice skating on christmas eve. They have been begging us all year to go and we're so glad we finally got the chance to take them. Anyway here are some pictures of our fun adventure. I think we will make this a christmas eve tradition.

Maysa was hilarious on skates. She giggled the whole time. But hated hanging on to the push bar so we broke our backs holding her up. We got a push chair for her to sit on after a while and she liked that too.

The chair was fun to push, we use to take strollers in Canada but they didn't let us do that here.

I was suprised at how good Elena was. She hasn't been for a couple years but we use to take her a lot in Canada and she was getting pretty good at it. I'm glad she remembered. She just needs to learn how to stop.

This was Sierra's first time on single blade skates. She used the push bar for about 15 minutes then got braver and was able to go on her own. She really loved it and caught on quick. An older gentlemen crashed into her at one point but they were both going real slow and ended up laughing and smiling, so thats good. Helmets!

We practically had the rink to ourselves after a while because it seemed like people only lasted 10-15 minutes. It was called "Arcadia Ice Center" located near Scottsdale. We went to this one because it was the cheapest rink in the city for public skate, and they had skate rentals from toddler size 6 all the way up to big adult sizes. Can't wait to go again! :)