Ice skating is a dangerous sport if you don't know what you are doing

The girls were able to go ice skating with some friends this past weekend. Why they picked some place freezing when it was freezing outside is beyond me. Good thing we have been before so I knew how cold it would be and made sure the girls had leggings, gloves and a hat.
I had warned the girls that when they fell to be sure to get their fingers off the ice before someone could roll over it. I remember at least that much from a previous lesson they had a year or so ago. At one point, early in the afternoon, Rebecca fell forward and hit the ice face first. She came to us crying with blood dripping out of her mouth. She her tooth went into her lip and it was pretty nasty but there was no damage to her teeth, thank God. She took some time off and I was shocked (shouldn't have been knowing her determination) when she came back out on the ice. By then, Emily had gotten some buckets and shared them with her sister so she could lean on them and not fall as much. She refused to let me take a picture of it. You can see a dark spot on her lip in the previous post on bowling that is just below this one.

Rebecca was no ice skating whiz (obviously) but she enjoyed helping 5 year old Will to let go of the wall and venture out into the flow of people.

Aren't they just the sweetest?

Group of Rebecca and a few friends chatting about something.

Emily had a blast ice skating and can't wait to go back.