Saturday, December 24, 2011

Ice-skating

Ice-skating rinks pop up all over London during the holiday season. Below the London Eye, near museums, beside grand halls and next to palaces. Such magical backdrops for a fun holiday activity. We live very near to Hampton Court Palace, which also hosts a Christmastime ice rink. It was a fun holiday family outing, and pretty cool to skate in the shadow of King Henry VIII's palace.

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By the end of our session Dallin and Madeleine were doing well making it around the ice without the aid of me or the wall!

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Trevi didn't last long on the ice, but he enjoyed the festive atmosphere and hot cocoa all the same.

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This is kind of a scrappy photo of me, but I really surprised myself at how decent I was on the ice. I haven't been ice-skating in probably over a decade, and probably only ever twice in my life. I loved it! I'm no Peggy Flemming, but I'm not bad if I do say so myself :)

2 comments:

tothe4thfloor said...

If my girls were old enough to ice skate Hampton Court is exactly where I would want to head. Looks amazing!

Jen said...

I think it's a cute picture! Looks amazing.

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