The kids wanted to take Venesa roller skating for her birthday, and I thought I had the day timed perfectly: breakfast, Jasmine's basketball game, lunch, roller skate. We were ready to roll, with the exception of one slight oversight: closing time. The skating rink was set to close 20 minutes after we got there. The attendant apologized for the mix-up (the hours of operation I found online were inaccurate), and that's when our three musketeers went into full drama mode. "What are we going to do for mommy's birthday now?" "All we wanted was to skate with her." "It would've been such a gweat sapwise" (I'll let you guess which kid that last one was)... insert long faces, hung heads and batting eyes; and the attendant didn't have a chance.
Twenty minutes of free skate. Hip hip... hooray.
Funny enough, I think we discovered that about about 15 minutes of skate time was the perfect prescription for 3 young kids and two weary parents. It was just enough time to enjoy the experience (we had a blast) but a short enough window that we escaped without the hassle of bathroom breaks, hunger complaints, long faces of boredom or skating accidents. In that respect, it was the perfect freebie since actually paying full-price for 20 minutes of skating (really, 15 minutes once you include the time it takes to lace up) would have broken all of laws of daddy frugality. I would've pushed 'em to get my money's worth... and it would've been disastrous. So three cheers for cute kid freebies. Happy birthday, mommy.
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