Ice skating in Alexandria

On New Years day we woke up early and played in the snow.  Late morning we decided to venture out and enjoy a little ice skating.  In downtown Alexandria is a shopping mall where they turn the entire patio area between the stores into a big ice rink. They rent the skates for a few hours.  Here the kids are getting all set up.

 Johnny is in the middle there with the beige hat with the snow flakes.  I was impressed with how well they all did.  If you look to the right of the lady in the blue coat, you'll see a penguin.  They rented these cute penguins that kids could lean on and push around to learn how to skate.

 Gracie in in the pink coat with red hat, and Livy is in the green sweatshirt.

 Since we were in the middle of this really nice shopping mall, and we had the skates for 3 hrs, we left the kids with a cell phone and went shopping!  It was a great afternoon.