Skating

Some people are surprised by the success of the movie 'Frozen'. As someone who watched the movie on big screen (with the kids, no less), this Mama is not one of them. With beautiful graphics, catchy tunes, funny characters and, of course, no less than two princesses, the movie easily steals some prime real estate in many little girls' heart. Including this one, who readily declared 'winter' as her favourite season despite never (ever) experienced it first hand before.
I am happy to report that she was not the only one, though. Interestingly enough, some of her friends who might have experienced 'real winter' seemed to choose seasons other than winter as their favourite. Ha!

Anyway, moral of the story was, given her current fascination with all things winter, our plan for the other weekend was already set once we found out about the new skating facility at the next city.

We were going skating!

It was not long after we came back from our Holiday trip 2013, and so, fully expecting the rink to be quite cold, Kecil was decked out in all her warm stuff from the Holiday.

She loves those ear muffs. Who knew you can get such a selection of cute pink ear muffs in Indonesia, of all places?

Please forgive the quality of the pics. There were some restriction about bags and such, so most of the pics were taken using camera phone.

The price of admission included rental shoes and 45 mins in the rink, plus usage of any available 'skating helper' on the rink. Now we've never used these 'helpers' before, but we could see that it would be very much useful.
Well, 'we' as in Mama & Daddy, that is. Kecil was telling us very confidently that skating was easy.

We did not want to burst her bubble, so we simply warned her that the ice will be slippery.

I wish I can tell you miraculous stories of how Kecil managed to get her bearing quickly on ice. Right. Did not happen. She was totally taken a back by the slippery ice and could hardly stand. Mama, who has very little experience on ice, was not much better, haha.... Still, we got along, eventually.

Kecil didn't get a helper at first, because everybody else was rushing for them. So she simply held the fence around the rink, or Mama or Daddy's hand. When finally she got a turn with the helper, she was hanging on the penguin for dear life, my little thing.
Still, we were very proud that she would not give up, at all. The only indication we got that she was tired was when she asked how much longer we had.

It was a fun outing, even if a bit expensive considering the 1-hour trip to the rink, the admission, meals etc. Still, we might do it again, perhaps in a different rink with better rate. We'll see.

We are happy to be able to expose Kecil to all these 'wintery' stuff. We do hope she'll base her 'favouritism' on experience rather than things she saw in movies. Haha....

Cheers!