This whole Mr Mom thing is tougher than I thought. It’s one thing for a day or two. But a week deep I’m exhausted. Anways, on Saturday I got up early, got India going to some DI thing, collected Ollie’s friend, drove to the wrong school to see India’s performance, played basketball with other dad’s while waiting, ate pizza with several other parents then was responsible for Ollie and his buddy Sam. They used to like skateboarding, but now they just want to play legos, lego star wars on the wii or basketball. Ugh. And they don’t even want me along for the basketball part anymore. So I skated flatground in front of the house. I was kinda unmotivated and it was sunny and hot which I wasn’t used to so I downloaded some silly “skate dice” app to my phone (since I lost 1/4 of the read dice) and failed a bunch of tricks. I would try tricks I’ve never landed 10 times just for the heck of it. Tricks I’ve never done that I got close to were front 180 heel and nollie frontside flip. Tricks I did that I haven’t done in forever were halfcab heel, fakie treflip and frontside flip. The only new trick i did was nollie cab. And boy was it a bad one. After awhile Derek and Carleigh stopped by since Derek wanted a board. We did some more skate dice and then I beat Derek in SKATE. Sick! At that point it also became apparent that both my kids would be having sleepovers elsewhere. Awesome! Carleigh mentioned that Black Dots were playing Petes in Denver so I was down. I had to bring boards to Community on the way. So around 8:30 we started skating. First spot was a buddist temple or something that had a no runup 4 stair to brick landing. Normally not so bad, but warming up is hard for me. Carleigh did it in a few tries. I took a bit longer, but on the first commit I went down hard. So hard. I guess my board shot out, but I certainly wasn’t expecting it. Ouch. That threw me for a loop to say the least. We walked by Petes and saw John. He was hyped and wanted to show us a ledge he saw nearby:
John killed it pretty quick. Some long front 50s and front 50 front 180 into the bank. Carleigh killed the noseslides and then went noseslide shove bolts. I however was sucking. It took like 20 tries to land a front 50, but once I did things got better. Powerslides down the parking garage was a blast. The funnest thing I did was an ollie onto the ledge then ollie somewhat farther down into the bank. Soooo fun. Carleigh was almost landing 180 nosegrinds. I got a front 50 front 180 out and then we went to Petes and enjoyed the show.