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Looking for fun activities for grandparents and their grandchildren that beat the late summer heat? How about roller skating?
As a member of the Baby Boomer generation, I grew up with roller skates and ice skates. I’m no whiz kid, but I am thrilled that I still rarely fall (unless I’m brought down by another skater 🙂 ), and can even skate backwards pretty good.
My granddaughter and I, along with two of her friends, had a delightful time at the roller skating rink recently. They had a blast! There were a couple of other grandparents skating with their young grandkids, but thanks to my 5th metatarsal fracture, I decided to just watch this time. And that was quite fun as well.
So even if you didn’t grow up skating on childrens roller skates (or have ended skating for this season of your life), it can still be quite enjoyable sitting and watching. Or follow my example and sit, watch, read, watch, compute with my handy dandy iPhone!Â
What summer activities for grandparents and their grandchildren have you been enjoying? We’d love to hear.
Hi Diane, I grew up going to the ice skating rink every week and using roller skates mostly at home. No lessons, which might have helped my weak ankles, but I’m with you – LOVED it then and now 🙂
I even took roller skating lessons. I loved it! :O)
Oh, the memories! I used to have my birthday parties (and so did all of my girlfriends) at the roller rink! WOW…those were the days. My boys went roller skating last year for a church activity and I was quite the wobbly giraffe on skates. Times have changed! LOL! Thank you so much for your sweet comment on my blog too. 😉
Hi Karli, Thanks for popping over. We rarely had birthday parties at roller rinks, but my kids’ school did class parties there at least a couple of times a year. So much fun! 🙂