Skating with the Bunkers

Michelle had arranged for our family to meet up with the Bunker family so that our boys could get together and play.  We decided to meet at the Classic Skating in Orem because they have a great deal on Thurdays, only $1 to go to the skating rink.  I didn't know until we got there that there was a whole new section of store that had been added on that included the big inflateable toys, a climbing area and video games (as well as refreshments galore).
We went ahead a paid the extra couple of dollars to let the boys play on the toys too.  We started with the big inflateable toys and the boys were off and running.  I captured some video but they were all over the place and I couldn't keep up, especially with the boys all running in different directions.  Luckily, I was able to catch up to them in the "training arena".

After that we headed to the skating area.  We brought the scooters for the smaller boys but David wanted to use the roller skates.  Once he started Donovan wanted to try them too.  After all, how else are you going to learn?  The boys struggled with the skates and by the end of an hour David was going pretty good and not falling so much.  Donovan mostly kept to the slower carpet to find his groove.  Gidean even wanted in on the action and tried to get onto the floor with any chance he could find.

There weren't too many people there but a group of teenagers we cruising the skate floor pretty fast and it looked like they might be practicing for a roller derby or something.  In any case, they were all syncronized as they cruzed around the floor.  No one was run over but everyone kind of tried to stay clear.

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We had a lot of fun and hope to be able to do a few more things with the Bunkers before they head across the country.