Our first order of business in the morning was to check out the ice skating rink. It hadn't been open the other times we had traveled there, and since the girls had been in lessons since last summer, they were really excited to check it out. I think it might have been the last day it was open in our unusually warm winter, but at least it was open!
And we had the entire rink to ourselves. For the $2 to rent Jasmine's skates, since Kaitlyn and I brought ours.
We were in heaven. The workers even played Disney music for us to skate around to.
The only reason I was eventually able to convince them to leave was because Kaitlyn had a minor fall and finally decided she was ready to meet up with Daddy and Tyler.
Previously, we had only walked along the ridge, or visited overlook trails. But this time we decided that the kids were good enough hikers to hike down an into the valley. Kaitlyn was worried about her hurt knee from ice skating, but afterward, she agreed that it wasn't nearly as bad as she thought it might be. And we all loved the scenery! It was a great hike.
I'm terrible at selfies. So Chris decided to take a picture of me trying to take a picture.
One of my husband's favorite parts of the visitors center is geeking out at their solar panel station.
And of course, we had to spend a lot of time at the pool!
I told the kids they could each get one small item in the shop, and Kaitlyn picked this non-descript geode to break with her class. In fact, her teacher had bought some geodes to break together that very next week. The ones her teacher bought were pretty boring looking inside, but Kaitlyn's was amazingly sparkly!
As a side note, Kaitlyn's class reward system involved tickets. You got tickets for doing good things, and could turn them in for rewards. But the kids started their own black market with tickets pretty quickly. They would sell each other bits of their lunch for tickets. And in this case, Kaitlyn made a killing selling off the bits of her geode that broke off to everyone in her class. She said that by the end, no one else had any tickets left but her!
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