Emmie performed at a local festivity with her Steps of Grace ballet group.  As a reward, they gave the performers a ticket to come back.  I had declined the tickets because the event is very expensive (and included ice skating among other activities).  They surprised us by gifting us tickets for everyone!  So, the day after Christmas, we headed out.  We had some reluctant skaters but we told them that EVERYONE would at least try one time around.
Emmie was a trooper but one time was enough. After a couple of rounds with the guard, several of our kids took off.

It was fun but we realized pretty quickly that we are very grateful we didn’t invest the money in tickets.  Only a few actually skated for more than ten minutes. This is good to know for future ice skating trips.