skate journal: Thanksgiving fun in Loveland with Ollie (Nov 26, 2009)
An amazing 60 degree day. Up at my parents with the family in Loveland and Liz, India, Ollie and I took off to a nearby park to mess around. We had brought a basketball, soccer ball and skateboards for Ollie and I. Luckily Ollie is a smart kid and wanted to skate. We messed around in the pavilion for awhile before moving into the park. The park is crap, but fun once a year I suppose. It’s a new prefab park, not the good Loveland park. There was one late 20ish skater there having fun and the three of us all seemed to have a good time. Ollie dropped in on the ramp and did a rock fakie first try. He also slammed later on and hung up all the way to flat. He didn’t complain at all. So awesome. He pushed around that park having a blast. I had a decent time too. I kept making myself ollie onto/over as much as possible. Had a little run with a ollie over the flatbar, front rock on the qpipe then ollie onto a taller ledge. Did a axle to fakie on the q-pipe, fakie smith fakie, bad crooks on the weird ledge with coping, nose mannied the flatbottom of the ramp, noseslid down the pyrmaid. I didn’t do anything special, but it was a fun session and the weather was awesome. When we left a shirtless teenager showed up with a huge weed leaf tattoo on his back. Ha ha, he’s gonna be regretting that one later in life.