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| - The Ice Den is great and well thought out. They have a café, a bar and 3 hockey rinks. It looks clean and seems very well run. So far everything is nice, but let me share my experience more in detail.
Once out on the ice I felt like Bambi, since it had been a dozen years or so since I ice skated last. My biggest obstacle was these pegs in the front of the skate, that doesn't exist on hockey skates and hockey skates is all I have ever skated on in my past - but since these were rented and they all were the same, there was nothing to it but embrace this new and most unfamiliar experience. There is a few personnel skating to keep order and help out amongst the hoard of children and inexperienced skaters alike in this desert ice rink. Especially one man in his forties, seem to have an avid napoleon complex and acts with a self-infused authority and speaks down to children and adults alike. The following conversation takes place when he skates up to me after I have fallen on the ice.
Skate Nazi: -"You need to tie your skates tighter. That's why you fell."
Me: -"No, I was caught by surprise when these pegs caught the ice. I am not used to skate on these girl skates, see wher.."
Skate Nazi: -"FIGURE skates" *Obviously insulted*
Me: -"Yeaah!' *Obviously amused, by the fact that I stepped on this clowns emotional toes*
It wasn't what he said, it was the tone of the importance out of which he feels in charge and in control. I so wanted to be kicked out of this establishment, but I wasn't. All personnel here is very nice, and I like the bar. I admit that after 20 minutes my feet was in pain, and I no longer
enjoyed the act of skating.
The reason it doesn't get a 5 star, is NOT the Skate Nazi but the fact that there is way too many people (and by people I do mean kids) on the rink and the same time. It is chaos, but then again maybe that's just a sign that I should sit on my front porch in my rocking chair and not be ice skating.
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