I went ice skating last Thursday and I found it so fun that I wanted to take Megan over the weekend. Lori helpfully pointed out in the paper that in Fremont a small seasonal rink had opened. So I took Megan. Getting her all revved up and excited along the way (which didn't take much). So we get there and I find that it's really just an inch of modular plastic put onto the road surface and sprayed with oil. Yes, you could use real skates, but you could also just walk on it.
What a jip! And what got me even more riled was the fact that the owner probably knows that people will be getting their kids excited, and that they won't want to leave once they get there because it would just break the kids hearts. So here we were, paying $5 each to skate on plastic, get oil slicks on our hands and plastic shavings on our knees. Ugh.
After that I took Megan to lunch and to a real ice skating rink in Foster City. She really enjoyed that. She picked up the ice chips and make them into snowballs. And she enjoyed just watching the kids skate. We had a much better time there.
In the future I will certainly make sure that when they say 'ice skating' that they really mean it. Actually, I'd like to see that article in the paper one more time to see if they said 'ice skating' or just 'skating'. Because the picture and the text certainly made it seem like ice was involved, and I don't remember any mention of plastic.
Posted by jherr at December 11, 2006 11:02 AMI went back and looked and no where do they say Ice - they say Winter Rink and skating Rink but no Ice involved. - What a rip off.
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