Roller Skating!

[elfs]

The girls on skates.

So, after a breakfast that the girls were allowed to make themselves (Kouryou-chan had cereal; Yamaarashi-chan had peanut butter and bananas on toasted English muffins, and she did a good job of slicing up the bananas herself with a safety knife), Omaha and I took the girls roller skating. Kouryou-chan fell asleep in the car and was cranky when we got there, but after we got a hot-dog into her she was great on the floor. Yamaarashi-chan, who was barely moving last time, was this time confident and gliding across the floor, doing much better.

I like the Skate King place. It has that run-down cheeriness of every place that has to attract lots of children and their parents, but can't afford to charge too much or it loses its attractiveness. The carpet is ancient psychedelica hard-wear, patched in one or two places with duct tape. The crowd was thick this time with kids mostly in Yamaarashi-chan's age. It was neat that by the end of the day I over heard at least one parent point to Kouryou-chan and use her as an example of someone who was "trying." If only they knew how much effort Omaha and I went through to get her to try!

Yamaarashi-chan actually tried the backwards skate, but after one loop gave up because it was too hard. I didn't do it at all. Omaha tried and fell on her butt.

We had a lot of fun.

Comments

Safety knife?

[blaisepascal]

What sort of knife allows a kid to safely cut bananas w/out cutting themselves?

Re: Safety knife?

[omahas.livejournal.com]

A butter knife. Heh.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I remember skating backwards, once upon a time.... why? Because I had a girlfriend, and, well, if one is skating couples, it's more snuggly if one skates backwards. She could, sort of, but she got tired of it, so I put my mind to it, and got semi-decent by the time we broke up, at least for couples skating... I can't go warp six with my ass pointed forwards like Scotty Hamilton or anything, never could, but I could get by... of course, now, I'd probably end up head over teakettle if I tried going bass-ackwards.... but at least I'd be in good company. ;)