Skater Girl

For the past three months, Caroline has been taking ice skating lessons at the skating rink just up the road. The Learn to Skate program has six-week sessions, with half-hour sessions once a week. For her first session, she signed up with a friend. She had fun skating with Tess (and I had fun visiting with Tiffany!)

They both passed Basic 1 and were ready for Basic 2.

Tess didn't sign up with us this time, so C was on her own for Basic 2.

At the beginning, she had fun.

Towards the end of the second six weeks, though,

she wasn't so excited about it.

She would complain about going,

but then always seemed to have fun out on the ice.

Today was her last lesson.

She really has learned a lot and

improved tremendously over the last 12 weeks.

Look at the wide range of ages in her class!

I attempted to video the performance,

but my darn camera died in the middle.

I put both halves together into this little one minute clip.

She's the second from the left,

in a bright pink cap.

She says she wants to be done with skating for now.

I think she's going to take a break from after-school activities

for a couple of months. She might try soccer in the spring.