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Acceptable_Tourist_4 t1_j2a1sm1 wrote

I agree the price tag isn’t worth what you’d get out of it. I doubt the kids would remember it past bedtime tonight. If it were cheaper, sure you could justify a disposable hour. But it sounds like it isn’t worth it for especially young kids (by design? Possibly) anyway. Maybe pick something more geared towards their age, and put this one in your back pocket for a few years from now, when they don’t require the dolphin.

Also, as someone mentioned cheap skates: for Frog pond prices, you could literally afford skates for all, some helmets and elbow/knee pads for the kids, a thermos full of soup and one full of coffee, and a tank of gas to a cute pond in a suburb where you could teach the kids to skate without pressure. Now that would be a memory.

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Eagle_Chick t1_j2cg80o wrote

Safety first. Please don't go out on unknown ice in the suburbs. Frozen water doesn't equal skating ice. It New England, it happens in the spring when the ice is thick, a light rain falls, and freezes over night.

Most frozen natural ice is bumpy, and can be thin where the current runs under it. Ice rinks have a Zamboni every hour or so because it is necessary.

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