Thursday, February 5, 2009

Stars On Ice!

To kick off Charlie's b-day week-end, we took him ice skating at a rink downtown. We talked it up all week to prepare him and he was excited! Once we got there, I was a little nervous to find that they did not in fact rent double blade skates but only single blade. Oh well, too late to turn back now. In typical Charlie fashion, the determination came out and he was GREAT at it! Only fell a couple times and no crying the whole time. He actually didn't want to leave! A fun time was had by all!


Getting ready to hit the ice

Some instruction on how to hold on to the rail

Getting the hang of it!

Looking good!

Taking a quick break

A little urging to do it on his own
There we go!

Oops!

The best part...the Zamboni!

The other best part...hot chocolate!


4 comments:

myMOMlife said...

Oh my god, I have tears in my eyes!!! Good thing I wasn't there it person. It would have been embarassing. Now, on to skiing!!!

Charlie and Alex said...

Yeah, and if I could have gotten the dang video to post, you have really had tears in your eyes. I need a tutorial from Matt on posting video!

Jess said...

Awwww. I bet Charlie's a better ice-skater than I am.

No pictures of the smashed-up car?

Charlie and Alex said...

No, I chose to leave the smashed up car a distant and undocumented memory!