The night I was there, the music was an oddball mix of holiday favorites and off-the-wall remakes played at a lurching variety of volumes, so here’s hoping you don’t startle easily.ĭo you smell what I smell? This being a mall, soft-pretzels, pizza and other essentials are just a few shops away.
If you are coordinated enough to clomp down the stairs from the skate-rental office to the rink without falling, you will be greeted with a nicely groomed surface that is not too sticky or puddle-pocked. In addition to having the largest rink, Viejas also had the best ice. “When you go out there, you need to hang on to the bars.” “I fell a lot,” said 10-year-old Jared Wangler of Del Cerro, who came to the rink with his mother, Mary, and his two sisters.
The big skate: Billed on the Viejas website as the “largest outdoor skating rink in Southern California,” this 9,800-square-foot rink has plenty of real estate in the middle for the twirling experts and lots of rail space for the rest of us.
