My Crazy Kids

My Crazy Kids

Saturday 29 November 2014

Not so dancing on ice

Wednesday we tried our hands at ice skating, well our feet anyhows lol, from my big daddy feet through to L-A and her dinky feet we all had a blast at it.

I titled this post not so dancing on ice which is certainly true for me as I was more like bambi on ice I was sliding everywhere.

My wife had been invited to attend Webb's Garden Centre media event and in turn we were invited to go ice skating, how fab we both thought, something we had never done before as a couple or as a family.

The only time I've ever been ice skating before was when I was about 12 years old, and one of the lads I was with fell face first on the ice and knocked his top front teeth out.

Well we hadn't told the kids what we were doing we just picked JR up from school and made our way over to Webb's Garden Centre.

The kids were so excited to see all the bright lights and Christmas scenery in the entry way to the store.


Once inside the kids were invited to write their Christmas letter to Santa telling him what they want for Christmas, they posted it in the post box and now they have to just sit back and await his response.



As we were early for the ice skating session we had a look round the store, showing the kids all the animals in the animal corner.

We took them through the Christmas section where they pointed at all the lights and decorations in excitement, we even got to take a christmas photo in a lovely carriage pulled by reindeers.


Now it was time for ice skating, we made our way round to the ice rink where we bumped into Joy from Pinkoddy and her lovely family, we put on our ice skates and waited patiently to go onto the ice.


I was worried about me falling on my ass as much as my kids falling over to be honest so we decided to help the whole situation out by hiring a banana aid which the kids sat on whilst I pushed them round plus that stopped me falling on my ass many times to be fair.






Well all my kids at different points of the session found massive amounts of bravery as they all skated by themselves at some point. Even little L-A showed daddy how to ice skate properly to the point she refused to hold anyones hand.


By the end of the session even my wife was skating round like a natural, well I won't say Jane Torvill has anything to worry about well apart from moving out of the way as my wife as she couldn't stop lol.

As big massive thank you must go out to Pinkoddy for the help and encouragement she offered at various points to my wife and kids who thanks to her found inner bravery to go off and skate unaided cause I was useless on the ice and couldn't stay on my own two feet let alone helping them stay on theirs.


Once we had finished the skating we all chilled out with a lovely chocolate muffin and hot chocolate which we all fully enjoyed.


Country Kids from Coombe Mill Family Farm Holidays Cornwall
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  1. I'm impressed that your littlest one was able to skate on her own. I've never seen the bananas before, they look fun :)

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    1. My littlest was fantastic as were they all tbf and the banana was a god send lol

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  2. Hi Craig, knowing that there was a chocolate muffin to be had at the end of the ice skating session would have made all the bruises collected worth while!

    I haven't ice skated for years and am not sure I could stay upright, but those banana thingys look just the business!

    Your family look as if they had the perfect afternoon for a day out before Christmas.

    #WeekendBlogHop

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    1. Thankfully we had no bruises but enjoyed the muffin all the same lol, the banana was a god send otherwise I'd of spent more time on my ass then my feet and yes it was a great Christmas style afternoon to spend as a family together.

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  3. It looks like you all had a great time! I have to admit to not really liking ice skating - although Grace used to have lessons and she loves it! Thank you for linking to #PoCoLo - good to see you again :)

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    1. Tbh we weren't sure we'd all like it but came off ice wanting to do more skating in the future it was awesome.

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  4. Oh what a lovely surprise for the children. Wish I had thought of that. Was lovely to meet you and your family. Maybe next time you could just go with the wife and both build your confidence up :)
    Thank you for the lovely mention - I didn't do anything then I just skated. I think it was a really great family friendly rink there too.

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    1. It was a lovely time all round and you did a lot to build their confidence up and help them really enjoy skating so once again thank you.

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  5. This looks like a great trip with the three of them, they all look like they're having loads of fun skating around. At the eden project they have penguins to hold onto which I thought was really clever. Thanks for linking up with Country Kids.

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  6. We all had loads of fun tbh, when we went to the Eden Project we watched the ice skating whilst we ate our chips lol

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  7. Ahh this is lovely and I bet the kids had an absolute blast. I am just waiting for our two tots to get a little older to take them I can't wait. I used to love ice skating all the time. This is great. Glad you had a fun and made the most of it all! Thanks for linking up to Share With Me. #sharewithme

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    1. we all had loads of fun as I said I wasn't sure they/we/I would really enjoy but it was brilliant we must try and go again to be honest.

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    2. we all had loads of fun as I said I wasn't sure they/we/I would really enjoy but it was brilliant we must try and go again to be honest.

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