It was supposed to be 55 degrees, sunny and warm. It wasn’t. Not until right before the sun went down. TF was going to the Lafayette park, but Liz was busy bringing India to her many social gatherings and I was with Ollie. I actually tried to push Ollie to go there, but he’s heard me complain about how crowded it gets and he’s pretty anti crowded parks like me. And besides, it was a Saturday which i don’t like spending at a skatepark. Later that evening Neil told me it was even too crowded for his taste. Wow. Anyways Ollie was wanting to wait for one of his friends to come over to skate, but I had enough of being inside and talked him into going to Southern Hills while we wait. The main bench area was dry, but totally covered in sand. Definitely one of the worst aspects of street skating in the winter even when the weather is nice. So we ended up skating this weird bank to curb. By weird I mean horrible. The approach was either rocks or cracks. But we had fun. Ollie did rock ‘n rolls on it and would go down the sidewalk a ways and dive into the grass. Kids rule. I tried a line of a manny on a horrible crack ridden manny pad, back 50 the bank to curb, then ollie off a little kicker. I never got all 3 in one line, but we didn’t stay too long. We went to the west side of southern hills and it turns out there is a perfect double sided ledge. I boardslid it into some water. We ollied some snow piles, then took off.We weren’t home, but for a few minutes before Ollie’s buddy Liam showed up.  We left and went to a mellow banked loading dock spot around Araphoe  & 35th.  I was still pretty grumpy, unmotivated and very sore.  I managed a lame line.  Ollie a little flat gap, flat ground kickflip (since I can’t do any other tricks moving faster than 2mph), ollie into one of the banks, front 180 nose manny.  Ollie and Liam were kinda just being silly.  I tried to boardslide a flatbar, but didn’t get to as the kids went back around the corner and I felt like I should keep my eye on them.  They were cruising down the long loading dock.  I ollied onto it, then out of it.  As bad as I was skating I was kinda happy to not have too many problems ollieing the taller part.Then we went to this spot.  Ollie and Liam skated for awhile before just being funny guys and filming each other with Ollie’s camera.  I had done a line of kickflip over a tiny pile of snow, ollie a small snow pile, ollie up the stage then front 180 off the taller part.  I got the line, but the hardest thing was ollieing up onto it since the asphalt is bad and there is a big crack right where I land.  After a bit I started trying to ollie the 2 stair rail.  Turns out Ollie filmed it shaky cam style.  You can click the image for the video.  It’s very embarrassing.  I look so old, fat, slow and unnatural it’s insane.   I get really depressed watching that clip.  I probably shouldn’t have uploaded it, but you can tell I was kinda hyped to ollie the rail. And since my goal this year is to learn to ollie hopefully I can look back and laugh at this one.   Ollie’s angle doesn’t really show it, but I did go over it and yes, it’s only the second time I’ve ollied a rail.  Before leaving I did a few tricks into the narrow downhill sidewalk that flows into the picnic tables.  I ended with an ollie up the curb to real quick kickflip into the downhill.  It was bad, but I was hyped and I followed it with a little front board jib on a picnic table bench.I went home and was so sore it’s insane.  I could barely walk.  I guess I should start skating new shoes as mine are dead.  That night TF went off and we raged to celebrate John and Fuzz’s birthdays.Click the photo for more photos and the run down from Carleigh.  It was an amazingly fun night.  Lots and lots of laughs, beer, good music and friends.  Happy Birthday dudes.