The Ice at Carter Green

Carmel does a really nice job of offering up venues and events to get people out of the house. The rink was busy today and a bit crowded. Despite the 20 degree weather and freezing drizzle. Everyone was having fun and I didn't see anyone fall while we were here. The Christmas market that surrounds the ice rink was already put away, but a few vendors were still set up selling hot drinks and light snacks. We decided to go inside for drinks to get out of the drizzle.

First time skating at Center Green. We had not skated in several years and stayed pretty close to the wall for the first several minutes. I was shocked they didn't have any stabilizers for kids or adults. People were falling left and right and I'm sure the EMT's are there frequently. Definitely recommend bring your own skates as the rentals were subpar.

Okay so have you heard of the hunger games? Essentially that is this ice skating rink. You wish your group "may the odds be ever in your favor" and attempt to skate through the chaos. There is no ref, no rules and just crazy. Kids as little as 4 are let loose on the ice with no parents. They'll go the opposite direction of the skating flow, fall on purpose, or just create chaos. So first you dodge the unaccompanied minors. Then you have the group of kids, teens or random adults, that decide to make a chain holding arms that expand the entire width of rink so you either run into them or have to dodge. Once again no one to say "hey only link up two". Then you have the influencers that will block an entire area to have a girls boyfriend take a photo of her trying to magically skate. Of course you want to be nice and not run through their video but yeah that doesn't happen. So it's a cool place, but they allow too many people on the rink at once, they have no supervision or rules to be enforced and it's just scary ha. Oh and then I almost forgot there are some kids that appear to know how to skate and for some reason play like speed tag--dear god. Just trying to skate laps and you have these like 13 year olds darting through everyone chasing one another. It's awful that when you finish skating the first thing you say is "WE MADE IT!". So if you're looking for a magical experience skating amongst the Christmas market...you'll have it for about 40 seconds until you see the chaos be fold in front of you...May the odds be ever in your favor.