A sketchcrawl in the Lloyd Center, where it was nice and dry.
After we met and introduced ourselves we wandered up to the skating rink. I headed up to the 3rd floor to look down on the kids.


At the south end of the rink was a beginners class. Little kids, some wearing bike helmets, desperately trying to stay upright. Their lessons were mainly how to move forward, and how to stop.

A slightly older tyke. Her class was starting to work on twirling.
And a more advanced class, for young adults. The instructor wanted a circle for them to skate around, so she leaned forward and skated backward, drawing a perfect circle on the ice with a marker. Something I can't do even when I can see what I'm doing.