For my daughter's fifth birthday, we reserved the party room at our local ice arena. My daughter asked each little guest to dress up as a princess. I brought tiny child size tables to the rink, and each little girl brought her own little chair. The kids listened to Disney princess music, drank from little teacups, sang the Happy Birthday song, and ate small little cupcakes on child size plates.

After that, the children and their parents put on ice skates and had a blast skating on the rink's regular public skating session. During a break from skating, we opened presents.

Have you had a special birthday celebration at an ice rink? Share your own ice skating birthday party ideas.

• Ice Skating Birthday Party Ideas - Celebrate Your Birthday On Figure Skates!

_{Happy Birthday! - Photo by Martin Poole/Getty Images}

Recently, I made contact with Tim David, the founder and director of One Step Closer. He is putting together a figure skating benefit exhibition that will take place in New York City's Central Park on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Olympic Champion, Oksana Baiul, will skate in the show which will raise money for the Aids Resource Foundation for Children.

I wish I lived closer to New York, so I could attend. This is a great cause.

_{One Step Closer Logo - Logo Design by New York City Fashion Designer Potenciano Adobas}

It seems like every figure skater is somehow connected to another figure skater.

The Six Degrees of Separation theory states that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. In the figure skating world, that has to be true!

Figure skaters have a link that only other figure skaters understand. Our link as skaters seems to cross every barrier. The ice skating world is certainly a connected skating world!

Further Reading:

• Six Degrees of FIGURE SKATING Separation - How Many Ice Skaters Are Out There?
• How to Become a Figure Skater
• Figure Skaters of All Ages and Generations Connect On Facebook - How Cool Is That?

_{Figure skaters have a link that only other figure skaters understand. - Painting by Larisa Gendernalik}

_{Figure Skating Champion Nicole Bobek Endorses Campbell Soup In 1998 - Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images}

• Nicole Bobek - Ice Skating Champion
• Nicole Bobek Mugshot
• Former U.S. champion arrested on drug charges - By Lynn Rutherford, icenetwork.com
• Nicole Bobek's mugshot released after former skating champ's drug arrest - From The Jersey Journal
• Figure Skating Champ Nicole Bobek Charged in Meth Bust - From The Associated Press