We took 3 car loads of screaming 13 and 14 year olds to the Paradice Ice Skating Rink at Aotea Square on Saturday. It's the pop-up version of their big rink out at Avondale that returns each winter. It's a great place for the kids to have a blast on a typically wet and miserable Auckland July school holidays and ensures parents pockets are completely empty by the time the kids go back to school.
The birthday revelers had a ball of course a few crashed here and there, nothing too serious, and I got to grab a couple of sketches.
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