Ice Skating

Today Briana and I got to go ice skating for her third grade field trip. I have been a tad nervous about this field trip for some time. Mostly because I'm not really that great on the ice. I don't drive well on it, and generally I don't walk well on it. So tossing my first born onto a big, slippery chuck of ice with only tiny metal blades to hold her up didn't sound like that great of an idea to me. However, Briana sure showed me up! She loved ice skating and did great!!

I was a very proud mom. They let the parents go out onto the ice with our regular shoes on if we wanted to. So I did that. It was still slippery. But, I didn't fall down. Briana kept practicing and was getting better and better at her skating. She'd go around the rink with me a little, and then go off with her friends for a bit.

After a while, the teachers all got their skates on too.

Briana was begging me to get my skates on already by this point. I knew I had to do it. I just really didn't want to fall down. So I laced up my skates and took my chances on the ice. Guess what? Not so bad! I held on to the wall for a bit and then followed Briana out into the middle part of the ice and I didn't fall down once! It was a miracle.

Briana told me that this was her favorite field trip ever. I have to agree with her.

She is dying to go back and go ice skating again!