Me? Well, I never really learned to roller skate, so I was quite a sight to see: 6'5", uncoordinated, on skates, inching along, gripping the wall. Not cute. I only fell once though - right on my bum knee. I hoped no one had noticed, but then all through the rest of the night the smart parents that were on the sidelines kept asking "How's your knee?" I must have been pretty interesting to watch, since appararently EVERYONE WAS WATCHING!!
Anyway, here's three pictures I got to take before my battery died.
There were components of the evening that were much the same as when we were kids: skate races, lemon heads candy, the slow-skate, packs of tweens. But there were also a few differences. For example, the chicken dance was replaced by freestyle dance-skating, which was crazy-awesome. I think the rollerblade technology takes the credit. These kids were AMAZING. Skate-dancing in sync, break-dancing/skating, doing back flips in unison. It was pretty bad ass, I must say.
In the words of Tori Amos: "All in all it was a pretty nice day."
2 comments:
The last time I went roller-skating was a very log time ago. I was but a mere child. Not a merecat, but a mere child (dig a tunnel, dig dig a tunnel) Anyway, I think its cool that you go out and make a complete ass of yourself. I have trouble doing that myself.
Wurd.
i love rollerskating! i've been wanting to plan a skating night for some time.....
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