Ice Skating Graduation

Lindsey just completed two back to back five week series of lessons to learn to ice skate and Sammy joined in on the second five week course.  I had offered to have him join Lindsey in the ice skating lessons from the beginning but he wasn't interested until the first time Lindsey came home from class and was eating a dollar bag of popcorn from the snack bar stand they have at the rink.  As soon as he saw she had a food treat when she walked through the door, his exact words were "I've changed my mind.  I want to take ice skating lessons."  I laughed so hard.  Hey, he just hadn't realized that there might be food involved.

Our friends, Cindy and Brian, also joined in on taking the second five week class.  Overall, everyone really improved from their first lesson to their last.  Lindsey learned to skate both forward and backward, really glide not just inch across the ice.  And Sammy went from falling every 5 seconds to only falling about every 30 seconds. 

I have to give Sam full credit and I'm very proud of him.  He kept getting up everytime he fell and kept trying though he took a few pretty hard falls.  He did decide in the end that ice skating was not for him, but he stuck it out for the full five lessons with very little complaining. 

Cindy and Brian were also looking pretty good on their last lesson.  They were doing turns and skating forward and backward.  They've enjoyed it so much that they plan to continue through the summer.  Lindsey wants to continue too, but we might take a break for the summer just because there are so many other activities going on.  Everyone got certificates of completion at the end of the class and then we all went to celebrate with a good pizza dinner.

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