Skating

When do skating and swimming go hand in glove together? When you join Dimond Athletic Club (in the basement of the Dimond Center Mall) to have access to their swimming pool and you get free ice time at the mall skating rink! So when we swim more, we skate more which means having to fit two more activities into the weekly schedule which is not easy. 

We haven't been members of DAC for two (?) or more years. I remember taking Lincoln and Evan to the pool there when they were quite little, but they never went skating. After karate became a necessity (Bentley and Jake wanted black belts), we didn't have time for other sports. However, it was past time for Lincoln and Evan to learn how to swim, so I insisted on going back to DAC and since we're swimming there, we are also skating there. That makes perfect sense, right?

We skate because the older children like to skate and free ice time makes skating irresistible...without the free admission from our DAC membership we would have to pay $25 (not including skate rental) every time we skate there. We still have to rent two pairs of skates, but $7 is a fantastic deal compared to $32.

Some days we skate and then swim!

How is the skating going? Everyone likes it. Lincoln wants to take lessons which I shall try and work out with Kara. The older ones would also like a few lessons (to relearn how to skate backwards and maybe pick up a few new skills), but I'm not sure we can fit those into their schedule between their school work, karate, dance, scouts, music lessons, music groups, and swimming. You just can't do it all...at once.