Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Bucket List Activity #1 Ice Skating

This was on our bucket list last summer, but it never happened. We put it first this year to make sure it happened because both of the girls really wanted to go. We checked the internet and found out the rink opened at 11:00. We arrived just after 11:00 and found a group was playing broom ball until 12:30. We detoured to the food court for some lunch. At 12:30 we headed down to the rink to rent our skates. Getting the skates on was easy enough, getting used to walking on the skates was a lot more difficult. We are used to skating on quad roller skates, so it was very different. We made it to the rink, and after some trouble getting Victoria on the ice, we started off. We were doing okay. Slowly Eddie and Cristina found their footing and were able to skate a little. Victoria, in her usual fashion of extreme confidence, thought she was doing great. She repeated, "I'm getting better" over and over, even as she would fall to the ice. She was impressed at anytime she let go of the wall, no matter how long. Everything was going great until we came to the part of the rink that was sectioned off for skate lessons. Two-thirds of the rink was for open skate and one-third was for skate lessons. That meant that once we had gone two-thirds of the way around we had to cut straight across the rink to make it back to where we started. I was doing okay staying on my feet, but no way could I make it across with Victoria. Eddie managed to get her across, but Victoria didn't make it easy. Luckily by the time we made it around the next time the cones were gone and the skate lessons had been integrated into open skate. Cristina had a great time. She made a friend and spent some time skating with her. Victoria decided she was done with skating forward and kept trying to skate backwards and to do spins (despite the fact she can't go three feet without falling). I love her confidence! :)
Towards the end we did have a minor accident. During one of Cristina's few falls her skate came forward and went across her finger. It looked kinda nasty, but a quick band-aid fixed it and she was back out on the ice.
The best part of eating at a food court is everyone gets to pick what they want to eat. 
Watching the Zamboni clean the ice after broom ball.  

 Putting on our skates.

  The ice ring seems so far away right now.

Getting started.  

Doing better. 

Time to go. We had a great time! 
Cristina's injury. Ouch!





Monday, June 23, 2014

Summer Bucket List




This summer we chose not to take any big trip. Instead, we decided to have a bucket list summer. Our bucket list is all encompassing. We have included many fun things to do with the kids, lots of projects we really want to get done (because they just won't happen during the school year), and a few fun things just for us, plus we are changing and adding things as we think of them. We have also included some goals we hope to reach. My goal for this blog is to document each bucket list activity once it is complete.
Do you have a bucket list? What things do you hope to do?