Ice Skating in Central Park

We went ice skating in Central Park!!! Just as a sidenote -- we skated on Wollman Rink which is the rink where they filmed Serendipity!!! Kaley has been wanting to go ice skating for a long time (especially after watching it during the Olympics and practicing in our living room). So we thought it would be a good birthday activity. It was so cute to see how excited she was! We were all pretty excited!

I had this idea in my head that I would get on the ice and glide along hand in hand helping Kaley learn to skate. We finally got to the rink, put on our ice skates and headed down to the ice. Kaley and I went first. We walked down and took one step onto the ice...stood there for a minute.....then stepped right back off. :) I quickly realized that there was no way that I would be able to skate very well (seeing as how I've only been once before in my life) and definitely not with Kaley. That would not have ended well for either of us. :) So we walked back up the ramp where Richard agreed to go with her and I would go by myself. I got on the ice and I froze (hee hee I couldn't resist). I realized that I was about to skate around a huge block of ice on a very thin blade and try not to run into anyone or fall and break something. But, I went anyway. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go ice skating in Central Park no matter how pitiful my skating might be. :) The first time around I was as stiff as a stick and had a death grip on the wall. It was sad really, but I was glad to see I wasn't the only one struggling. I actually ended up going again and the second time was SO much easier. I wasn't stuck to the wall and I went a lot faster. I was definitely getting the hang of it. It was a blast!

Richard took Kaley several times around the rink. I don't know where and when he learned to ice skate, but he was really good. Trying to find a way to get Kaley around the rink was really tricky. This was how it ended up. Kaley would move her feet a little but mostly she was just pulled along. It was pretty funny.

Kaley loved ice skating!

Having fun!

After ice skating we decided to walk around Fifth Avenue a little. This was a cool sculpture that we saw.

We also stopped at FAO Schwarz. That is a really fun store to walk around and of course we had to check out the famous "Big Piano." (This isn't the best picture, but it's the only photo we have of us actually on it. Our time was up and I was trying to round up the kids.) :)

Richard even took Tyler. He had so much fun! The smile on his face was huge! I'm not sure why the video turned out so blurry when it was downloaded so you can't really see his face, but toward the end you can see Tyler moving his feet really fast. It is so cute and pretty funny too.