Christmas Vacation: Day Six

This morning started out with some more Easy Bake oven creations, painting and Brynn's fossil dig kit that she received for Christmas.

It was also a good day for some hot chocolate and sisterly love.

Our bucket list item that we had planned for today was Skate City. I was pretty nervous as I am really terrible on rollerblades or skates...any type of wheels strapped to my feet, really. Brynn was really excited to go and Clara just kept saying how she was going to fall on her butt.

We were all still upright at this point!

We had barely gotten there and were sitting down to get our skates on and Brynn says, "I don't know how to skate." So, I asked her why she wanted to come then. Haha. She had been there before with Hope, I believe.

They did have PVC pipe stands that you could skate along with which was really helpful for both girls. Dana whizzed laps around us to which Brynn told me "Dad is the only one of us who actually knows how to skate." True that!

By the end of the night, though, both girls were venturing out without the skate stands. We had a really fun time and will be back!

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Glad it was a good time! I really like your sweater. Did Dana bring his own rollerblades?

December 27, 2017 at 11:38 PM

Grma Holly said…

So fun! Brings back memories. Grmpa and I met at a roller rink.

December 28, 2017 at 8:42 AM

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