Didn’t have a whole lot of energy left after all the swimming and roller coasters the day before.  After work and playing some baseball with Ollie I went to the manny pad.  There was a big puddle from the sprinkler system (good thing it was running considering how much it rained earlier) which ended up being fun to ollie as a setup for the manny pad.  Oh yeah, I had a new deck and shoes.  Another Null deck.  Geez.  And another set of the eS La Brea shoes.  This time an ugly green.  Everything felt pretty good though.  I like when I’m sitting on a stack of decks for awhile and take the one off the bottom of the stack so it’s all flat.  Love it.  Anyways, I couldn’t get a manual to start, but I got nose mannies evertime.  I did a little line of nose man, ollie the puddle, ollie up the curb to quick up the next curb.  I was happy the quick up didn’t take 10 tries like last time.  I also got that with a back 180 up eventually.  I put a box in the puddle to ollie and managed to land every ollie I tried over it until the end of the session when it got dark.  Even when I turned the box upright so it was taller.  I really didn’t land much for mannies other than a manual front 180 out and nose manny front 180 out with a little back wheel bonk action.  I got a few nollie front shoves up the curb, but couldn’t land in manual.  Carleigh met up for a minute, but was stressing over moving her washer/dryer so she was too preoccupied to lay down a kickflip nose man nollie tre out.  She left and I killed some time seeing if I was gonna get the washer/dryer by exploring around Sunflower grocery store area.  I ended up in front of Rocky Mountain Kids and spent way too much time trying to get a quick ollie over a rug followed by an ollie up onto a planter then 180 off.  There was like 4 cracks right in front of the planter then two more on top of it.  After quite a few failed attempts I figured I was just being dumb and moved on.  I cruised around a bit, but didn’t really do much.  No wonder spots appeared over night or anything and Carleigh gave her nice washer/dryer away to someone else.  I went home and set up some new wheels since it sucked having everything else new with old wheels.  Am I officially a whiny bitch when it comes to decks/wheels/shoes yet?  Man I hope so.

Took the day off work and surprised the kids with an action packed day consisting of swimming at the Bay, eating out for dinner and then Lakeside in the evening.  I was beyond exhausted and sick by the end of the night.  Such a fun day.

Kinda sore and tired, but skated flat for awhile in front of the house.  Was gonna hang with the kids, but they were just watching a movie so after no good tricks I left to Valmont.  There was a big puddle there from the rain earlier.  I waxed up the ledge real good anyway because now the spot was like a gap over ledge.  I started trying mostly noseslides popped up to crooks, but never got one up into crooks.  I got a few front 50s over but struggled.  Out of nowhere I tried a nollie flip and landed it.  WTF?!?!?!  I giggled for a bit super hyped and almost landed the next one too.  That’s either the 3rd or 4th nollie flip I’ve landed and the last one was on Campus by the banked manny pad when I was skating with Nate and Jack a few years ago.  I started trying a line of a fast kickflip (that left me with enough speed to do a trick on the curb on the far north side of the parking lot without pushing) followed by a back pivot then front 50 over the water.  I think I got that once or twice.I was pretty beat, but Nate ended up being able to skate late so I couldn’t pass up skating with him again.  I went and picked him up and we went back to Valmont.  Nate of course front 50d the water like it was nothing.  He tried a bunch of noseslide nollie heels out.  Some were close.  Pretty good considering he can barely do noseslides.  We played a no holds barred game of SKATE which means Nate can do nollie and switch tricks.  Things started out bad when Nate missed the first kickflip and the double or nothing.  He made a bit of a comeback, but missed a lot of his tricks and will have to live with that loss for a long time in Portland.  Ha.  After SKATE Nate and I kept trying noseslide variation.  He was trying nollie heel out and I was trying to go into crooks.  At one point I got a first try 2mph front tail on the low part and Nate back 50d over the water.  Nate also landed his first ever switch front big heel.  Ridiculous.  Since I had landed a very rare nollie flip I went for the trifecta of nollie flip tricks I can do.  I tried nollie varial flip for awhile before getting a bad one.  Then I tried nollie treflip forever while Nate tried switch treflip.  Kind of appropriate considering we both learned those tricks at the same time.  After a good 20 minutes I finally got the nollie tre and Nate pretty much got my back with a switch tre.  Sick!  I was super exhausted, but man what a fun session and wow I will miss Nate.