Fun Friday

One of our favorite places here in Iowa is our mall.  I know that sounds silly, but it has some cool stuff.  It has the children's museum, a carousel, an ice rink, and a pretty cool kids play area.  We usually only take advantage of the play area because everything else costs money.  But on the last Friday of the month, everything is free!  We've done this a couple times before and wanted to do it one last time.  This time we looked it up and didn't know there was a discount at the ice rink - you only pay for the skate rental!  So we decided to go all out.

 

This time there was a display from a local gymnasium and the kids had fun trying it all out.

Then Addie, Andres and I all got skates to try out the ice.

Neither of them had ever done it and it had been several years for me.  They either clung to the side or to me.  I tried to take turns and try and help them find a little balance, but they were both a little nervous.  I'm sad there isn't a good picture of me trying to skate while holding both of them up.  I found it quite awkward, and I'm sure we looked rather entertaining.  We only managed to go around once, and then Jason let me go around once by myself - it was fun.

Then to the carousel.  I'm pretty sure this is Dexter's first time on one, and he seemed to like it.