Patti and I moved to Boston in 1998 and each year we grow more and more into New Englanders. Today, the assimilation continued when Patti came back from Play It Again Sports with ice skates for our 5 and 3 year olds. The boy (3) got hockey skates and the girl (5) got white skates, apparently they don’t make ice hockey skates for girls. I have no plans on getting them into this bizarre sub culture of ice hockey that is huge in the Boston area, with 5AM rink times and fights breaking out between fathers (with one getting killed a couple of years ago) and expensive equipment, but teaching kids to skate at a young age is big around here. To be honest, 5 years old is a little late.
It’ll be a good winter activity since not much can happen outside. Our youngest, 2 in January, is still learning how to walk and while that may be a perfect time to get him on skates for many people in our neighborhood, it’s still a little early for us.
And the transition continues from New Yorker to Bostonian.
Dave, you will never be a Bostonian so just forgettabout it.
Jay
Posted by: Jason | November 17, 2007 at 09:42 PM