wow.

Got off of work and everyone was dealing with female issues.  Made me feel lucky.  Liz you are the greatest.  I went to Google to pick up Nate, but he was hating life on the phone, then back to pick up John on his 35th B-day, then back to Google where Nate was still on the phone.  John and I skate the bank into the parking garage and it was pretty fun.  John got the ol’ 270 no comply back tail into the bank, fakie ollie, front tail on the upper right one (sick) and some other silly tricks.  I started trying halfcab flips and they felt weird.  Stuck with it and eventually got a bad one in.  I followed it up with a fun powerslide, kickflip, no comply and fakie flip in the garage though.  I also got a back pop shove into it second try.  Fun.  Brian showed up and joined the kickflip in race John and I had going.  I landed one, but it was horrible.  John landed a good one.  Brian didn’t get it, but topped it 100 fold with a perfect first try backside no comply 360.  So sick.  Nate’s second line manager was lurking so we headed to Wahoos to eat.  Seeing as how we skated over there we thought it would be appropriate to push mongo there.  Awesome.  After a margarita and food we ended up back at google and skated for a bit longer.  Not being sober allowed me to manual down the bank.  We had some tic tac races up the parking garage.  Brian and his big wheels won.  I slid out once with Nate in hot pursuit and he almost leveled me.  So funny.Next up was an impromptu beer infused totally silly and awesome Rampy session.  Lazer met up with us too.  I think most everyone did their tricks.  Lots of laughter and slams went down.  I don’t know if anyone landed anything new.  Brian, Nate and I laughed too hard trying to slurp our beers the loudest.  At the end Brian lobbed a beer can from the flat up onto the top shelf for the closer.  Epic!

Went over to pick Nate and we watched a new video called Rich Mahogany.  The first parts were awesome and we should have just watched a few and leave.  But we ended up watching the whole video and I think it kinda drained us cause I was really tired.  We started off at the white ledge parking garage, but didn’t skate the ledge.  We did quick ups to front board transfers up the sidewalk on the other side of the ledge.  I was having troubles landing ollies up the curb.  Ugh.  We both got it eventually.  Nate popped out forward, I popped out to fakie the easy way.  I also ollied the curb down into the sidewalk which was surprisingly scary.  Especially considering how badly I was skating.  We ended up getting the boot and rolled to the new planter ledge in front of some new art studio.  We got some boardslide popouts pretty quick.  Nate did them frontside too and they were really sick.  We started trying lines with tricks up the curb then boardslide variations.  I was still feeling pretty weird on a skateboard and it showed.  I could barely kickflip up the curb.  Nate was trying pop shove up and totally slammed right in front of a car.  It looked painful and hilarious at the same time.  The people in the car slowed down to see if he was ok, but then saw me laughing and even Nate laughing so they moved on with confused faces.  I should also mention it was pretty cold out.  Lower 20s for sure.  So we took a break to heal up Nate then headed over near the St Julien for the wood benches.  I continued to suck and was getting really mad.  Ugh.  We went over to a yellow curb to play a game of SKATE, but the concrete was bad so we just played curb SKATE which ended up being way fun anyways.  We had lots of the same kinda tricks you normally do in that, but at the end it was tied up at SKAT and we were trying harder tricks.  I tried kick front 50 and Nate was trying front smith shove out.  I kinda got mine although it was more of a front feeble slop.  After that I got a few slow kick back 5-0s and tried a front shove of the curb and SNAP went the board.  Doh!  We left downtown and stopped at Ideal Market on the way back since there is some super fun looking pyramid launchers now.  They were indeed a blast and we skated there for about 20 minutes.  I had to skate with my board backwards for the most part.  Wallies from the pyramid into the downhill of the driveway were a blast.  That place has endless potential, but the busy street kinda messes with it.  Right before leaving Nate made me try a back hurricane on a mini parking block and I got a couple.  Rad!  Overall I skated pretty bad, but at least there were some highlights.