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We went back to Skateland Wednesday evening. When we were there Saturday afternoon the kids each won a free family pass for Wednesday evening and were excited to go back. It was nice because there were only a few people there so the rink was pretty empty. Cooper was definitely getting better with his skating!

Both of the kids entered the race. They stop the skating and have a race for anyone who wants to participate. Kestrel has been wanting to enter the last several times she's been there, but keeps missing it. This time she went right out there and so did Cooper. Usually they separate the girls and boys, and have them race within their age group. However, there were only 2 young girls, so Kestrel raced against a girl who looked about 5 (but could skate pretty well). Kestrel won, and they gave her a card for a free soda. After the race Kestrel noticed that the other girl looked sad, and Kestrel felt badly for her. She said to me "I would be sad too if I was little and had to race against a big kid like me. I'd think it wasn't fair." So then Kestrel went up to the girl and gave her the prize for a free soda, and told the girl "you deserve it". The girl looked happy after that!

Cooper was the littlest boy there, so he had to race against a boy who looked about 10. The other boy won of course, but Cooper did great and didn't even fall! They gave Cooper a free soda prize anyway, for doing such a good job trying. We were so proud of him, and he brought the free soda card home to show daddy.

After the race we were skating a little more, and the girl who raced against Kestrel came up and asked Cooper if she could give him a hand, and the two of them skated around the rink together holding hands. So cute!

I decided that Skateland is one of the hardest places to take a picture with my phone, but I thought these were cute anyway.

This is Cooper when he came back from racing. He was so proud of himself!

And speaking of skating, I was rollerblading yesterday morning and it was such a beautiful day! It is still hot here, high in the 80's this week, but not such a miserable hot like it was in the summer. It stays cooler in the morning, and was such a nice blue sky morning while I was skating. Here's a prairie picture for you. I've decided my phone definitely takes better pictures outside! Or perhaps the big blue sky is more forgiving.