cold toes

This year our zoo put in an ice skating rink for the winter season.

This is a fairly novel activity for our kiddos.

Carly and her class took a field trip after their chapel program. It was the first time to ice skate for most of the kids although you could tell the kids who rollerblade. They had a little advantage.

The ice skating tent was suppose to open at 11:00 but we got there about 10:30 and the girls were determined to see if they would let them in. Surprisingly, they did. So Carly and about 6 friends had the rink to themselves for about 25 minutes.

It took a village to get them in their ice skates but finally they were ready to take off!

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I was freezing but obviously ice skating was hard work

because the kids kept taking off clothes.

They had a fabulous time. Although they were tired they did not want to leave after their hour. Even though the ticket we bought was for an hour, there was no system in place to kick people off the ice. I don't know what they did when there was a big crowd?

So, by the time we put our foot down, they had probably skated more like an hour and a half. I couldn't feel my toes anymore!