"Ice" Skating Lessons

We just got home from another fun Chicago weekend. Due to another "cold" day off from school, we were able to catch an earlier train and join my mom for a delicious dinner of chicken and dumplings (a long standing favorite meal of mine!). After a cozy conversation by the fire, our friend Will and his girl friend Eileen came by. We braved the cold and went to a wine bar for some catching up and great vino.

The next morning we went to the Children's Museum and joined in on their winter celebrations. They had pretend snow fort building, snowball fights and an "ice" skating rink. The ice skating rink was actually some sort of smooth slippery bouncy surface that the kids skated around on in their socks. Below you can see Mehandis practicing his jumps... he now gets both feet off the ground!


I think cast-offs from the Wiggles were the skate instructors. They had incredible enthusiasm and were getting quite the work out.


I think Mehandis may be a speed skating prodigy!

The fun continued on from there, as we joined good friends Dara and George for afternoon cocktails and then mastered the "L" to celebrate cousin Joel's engagement to Rhonda. Thanks to my mom who watched Mehandis during many of these outings... and who kept explaining to Mehandis that Grandpa was not home (or the Hero Pilot of the Hudson on t.v.) but in Germany this weekend.