Had the day off work.  The plan was to skate the new Arvada skate spot with Brian, John and Ollie.  We made it there, but a few minutes after arriving we were told by a contractor that the park isn’t open yet and to leave.  Ugh.  This scared Ollie so he didn’t really do anything other than follow me around saying “Dad, let’s go”.  John ripped everything before we left.  Blunt pivot fakie on the 1 foot tall qpipe.  Brian wasn’t into how small everything was, but still managed to not land a frontside grind over the stairs.  Only thing I was hyped on was a front to back 50 transfer over the spine.After stopping at Community to say whaddup we went to the old Arvada park for a few minutes before the lightning scared us out.  Brian and John were ripping right away.  Brian did fsg bf ft on the cement walls (fs grind followed by blunt fakie first try).  John got in on the cement bank action too and did fsg and back disaster as well as blunt to pivot.  Ripping.  Ollie cruised around.  I felt like the lame dude that can’t do fsgs.After some pizza and rain we attempted to do Broomfield, but there was too much traffic and we needed to get back.  A short stop at Louisville was in order.  I got pissed quick bailing back 50s around the corner.  I ended up having an ok time though.  I also got a front smith on the bank to ledge and ended it with a crooks on the flyout ledge that I’ve never skated before.  Ollie got some front boards on the little ledge and cruised around a lot.  Brian was manning the clock and the no comply front blunts.  John did a pivot to fakie on the edge of the bank and some other tailslides and whatnot.After a small dinner the plan was to go skate Broomfield.  This was John’s idea, but he didn’t answer his phone.  Skelly was coming all the way from Fort Collins and I was gonna meet Brian and maybe Fuzz there too.  I ended up skating flatground for awhile because I knew it would be awhile before everyone showed up.  I ended up skating flat pretty hard again.  I guess I must be into it again.  Anyways after some initial messing around I started trying a couple runs.   One way was fakie bigflip, front shove, 360 flip.  I got that run once with a sketchy 3 flip.  The other was was f/s halfcab flip, heelflip nollie treflip.  I came super close to that one.  Landed on, but never rode away from the nollie tre.  When I would bail runs I hucked some random tricks and came super close to nollie flip at one point as well as landing maybe my 3rd or 4th 3 shove.  I guess I skated flat for awhile because I got a call from Sean asking if we were still coming.  Oops.The drive went by quick as I was bumping some Priority Records sampler I found.  Snoop, NWA, EPMD, etc.  Awesome.  I got to the park which was crowded, but not as insane as it can be.  Lots of Boulder heads were there.  Fuzz wanted to play SKATE kind of with a trick on the qpipe then ledge.  I opted out of that quick since I suck and Fuzz is good.  Especially after he did a first try front d on the qpipe then back 5-0 on the black ledge.  I hid out in the flow bowl for awhile posing out and not landing anything.  Then the bowl got crowded so I went to the ledge area.  I can’t remember doing anything worthwhile except an accidental front 50 on the little qpipe.  I think I went back to the bowl around the time Brian showed up.  His first run was so sick.  Seriously, I hang out with that dude sometimes.  I finally got a couple little stalls/grinds.  Doing stuff on the 3 foot tall part on top of the bowl is really fun.  Max was there and he killed huge flyout to front ds.  Toward the end I started skating the ledge area again.  I almost rolled or broke my ankle bailing a front 5-0 on the convex ledge at one point.  That was scary.  I got boardslides almost every try on the tiny downhill rail.  Brian almost did feeble and eventually went on to do a perfect front board as the lights shut off.  He followed it up with a really good run too.  Fuzz struggled a bit at boardsliding the rail but backed it up with first t halfcab board and a feeble grind.  At the end of the session I was doing front 50s down the euroish ledge and trying side rock’s on the manny bank with a kickflip out.  I eventually got one.  Hyped.  I forgot to mention Sean.  He skated the bowl really well and managed to boardslide the little rail with a broken toe.  Wow!  That park is awesome.

One of those days that I really want to take a day off of skating so I go to the park and do nothing but carve around.  No ollies, barely any grind attempts, a few no complies on flat and almost a back smith on the steep qpipe.  That’s it.