Skating

While Grandma and Bumpa were here, we decided to take advantage of the free skate at Market Square.  Emma's never been skating before, so she was super excited to go.  She's a bit of a perfectionist as well, so it was hard at first when she couldn't do it right away, but she practiced and caught up to Lucy fairly quickly.

Starbucks handed out free peppermint hot chocolate.  It was deliciously delicious.  Mmmm-mmm.  

My mother in her element.  I wish the rest of us had inherited her talent for skating.  She says when we were kids we lived across the street from a skating rink and at night, after we had all gone to bed, she would go across to the skating rink by herself and skate while dad sat in the living room and watched her from the window.  And when she was a kid, her dad made a skating rink in their backyard and she would be on it all night until the streetlights came out.  

After the zamboni cleared the ice, mom slipped on the new ice and banged her head.  She took it easy from that point…crazy lady.  But she wouldn't stop because she loves skating too much.  

This appears to be a very cruel trick played by a dad on his exhausted son, but to be honest, Logan asked him to do it.