Yesterday was skating day for the nursery school. Since David didn't have class until the afternoon we were all able to head to the rink. When we got there we didn't see a place to rent skates for Sarah...strange. When we asked Sarah's teacher, she told us that she had never heard of skate rentals. The other nearby parents gave us some odd looks and confirmed that there wasn't such a thing. What!?! All my life there has always been the skate rental option.
So it seems that we discovered one more different between the east and west of Canada. People in the east skate so they own skates. You buy skates for your kids and for yourself, after all, the schools take the kids skating. People on the west generally don't own skates (unless you're in hockey or figure skating). The rest of us rent since we only skate about once every year or two.
Since we were at the rink anyways, we just took turns walking and sliding around on the ice with Sarah. She still had a great time, in fact, she probably had more fun than the kids that were on skates since she didn't have to be held up the whole time. Last night we went to Walmart and bought some Bobskates (strap on double bladed skates) for $9 to use for the next skating session.
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I'm pretty sure that none of our local arenas have skate rentals anymore. We've always had to buy our girls their own skates. It sucks though when you consider how rarely one goes ice skating.
Drew is going skating with his class this morning! Just sent $2.90 for his skate rentals. But they are supposed to bring their own helmut. I'm sure he'll have lots of fun. Sarah looks like she had a great time! :)
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