This week's guest post is by my friend and fellow blogging mama, Micaela Rall from "Three Little Trees". Mom to three beautiful children and fellow unschoolers, Micaela and her children love to explore San Diego and I'm so happy to share one of her experiences here.
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When you live in a warm climate year round like we do, anything resembling winter or cold weather will get you excited. So when we received an invitation to go ice skating for a friend’s birthday celebration, we were super duper excited. We dug wildly in the closets for appropriate clothing. Where are those mittens? Grab those wool hats! Do we have any scarves? Mind you, we are sorely lacking in REAL snow attire, but we treasure the opportunity to use the few winter accessories we have. I assumed, at first, that we were going to the nearby Ice Arena at the Kroc Center. The girls took iceskating classes there last year for a few sessions and loved it. The price for classes was very reasonable, plus it included free admission to public skating for each student. We took advantage of that often to give them practice between classes. But when I looked at the invitation again, it said we were ice skating at Horton Plaza. Horton Plaza? Yes, indeed. They have a seasonal outdoor ice skating rink. On the day we went, it was sunny and warm, so we didn’t actually need the extra jackets, mittens, and hats we brought (but we will continue to look for opportunities to wear our winter stuff thank you very much). The ice was melting, but this did not deter us one bit. The girls quickly donned the rental skates (nice quality, I thought) and tottered toward the entrance. Although they spent most of their time near the edge for the safety of the rails, they each had several rounds with either John or me and even by themselves! Even Tiago took a few trips around with his daddy! With the warm sun glinting on the ice, foot-tapping dance music, the simple music of kids laughing and yelling excitedly, we had a fantastic time. It will definitely be one of the most memorable birthday parties we’ve attended. What a fun way to start the New Year! After three hours of skating, we were all tired and hungry, so we stepped into Panera’s right next door for hot soup, sandwiches, and hot cocoa before we headed home (much to Paloma’s protests who, apparently, could have continued skating the rest of the day). But if you want to go, you need to hurry because they are only open until January 8th! I noticed on their website that there were some events in December that looked like fun, so we will definitely look for this earlier in the season next winter!
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Hope you get a chance to check out the ice skating at Horton Plaza, but if not there's also the Iceoplex in Escondido open all year round!
Enjoy your week and may you continue to....
Keep Soaring (and landing safely)
in Beautiful, Sunny
San Diego!
Your Soaring Mama,
Mandy
Looks like fun, thanks for sharing.
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