The crew started as Brian, Neil and I.  After filming some intro stuff for Brian we went to a car wash bank spot that was gnarly.  Not a good warm up spot.  Unless your Neil.  The bank has a curb on the bottom and one at the top.  He got a line with a wallie then a no comply to tail on the bank.  No filming will ever do it justice to be able to keep speed up the bank like like that after ollieing up the curb.  I was screwing around trying to do manuals and kinda landed a couple that had some heel drag.  I took off at least two layers of my deck trying, but it was fun.Next we med up with I-Path John and went to the double sided curb.  This spot was on my list of to-do spots for off the couch.  Basically a flatground trick, slappy 50 transfer, and another flatground trick.  The 360 no complys and halfcab flips weren’t working so I started trying fakie bigflip and it just felt perfect.  A few tries in and I got my line.  Fakie bigflip, slappy 50 transfer, no comply finger flip almost primo make.  Sean and Mike from Ft Collins showed up with Jim and Rich from John Doe as well as Nate and we kept skating this spot for awhile.  Brian broke his board trying an acid drop thing over some tables.  Neil almost did switch wallrides.  Nate almost did a polejam wallride.  John got a sick ass run with a no comply, fakie flip, halfcab flip, noseslide shove and front shove revert.  Ridiculous.  Jim back tailed the ledge super good.We hit a weird bank spot that Nate had seen.  Sean 180’d a crate then half cabbed into a narrow drainage run out.  Next Nate found this crazy long loading dock with flat bars on the sides.  We all had fun boardsliding down it.  Neil got a halfcab boardslide.  Mike got a halfcab noseslide.  Nate closed it with a feeble.  Next was the steep bank spot.  Jim got pivot fakie and staple gun to fakie.  John slammed over and over on front tails.  Brian sat in the car then came out for a blunt fakie cameo.  Sean had some good backside ollies.Lastly we went to Honey’s Hole so Brian could get something he’s had on his mind for awhile.  Prior to filming it I got a back tail in the kinda steeper bank.  Kinda hyped me up.  Next I filmed Brian.  Others were ripping.  Mike got front shove to fakie and then did it switch.  Sean was popping ollies into the bank like it was nothing.  Then went front 180.  Sick.  John was killing it too.  Backside flip, some kinda sal flip thing, back d revert so many tricks.  Brian got his trick, but I filmed it bad.  Ugh.  He kept trying it, but never got it again.  I felt bad.Over all a fun day though.  Not even that hot out.

I only had about 40 minutes to skate before a date with Liz after work so Nate, Neil, John and I met at Neil’s spot where we all decided it would be best to suck as bad as possible.  With the exception of Nate I don’t know if any tricks were actually landed.  I was really bummed.  I even slammed on a flatground front 180.  Not even going fast.  I got into some switch backside boardslides though.  Almost got a crooks and came close to a front 5-0.  Lame session.  They happen.

Still tired from the trip and getting home so late.  Ollie wanted to skate, but it was raining.  We hit Rampy.  Ollie was ripping.  He had runs with several little backside slasher grinds and was going faster and linking more tricks.  India was sitting on her board, but having fun.  Stoked me out.  I was sucking bad.  The kids started just goofing off and I was annoyed.  They went in eventually and I did almost nothing, but attempt frontside ollies.  I got a couple ones where the wheels may have left the ground.  Ugh.

Sore from skipping rocks for hours the day before and with only a few hours left in the family Seattle trip we went to the Seattle Center to check it out and so I could see the skatepark.  Oh, and it was over 100 degrees.  The park kinda sucks.  It’s not layed out well.  I skated horribly, mostly my own sore old self, but still, the park isn’t all that.  The only things I did worth a crap were wallie up the bank to ledge, kickturn on the window (barely), crooks the ledge first try, and well, that’s about it.  They had this cool mellow bank spine, but it didn’t work right.  I really need to learn to ollie higher.

After a fun night of seeing the Mighty Jesus Lizard Josh and I decided to start wearing our hangovers off at the ballard bowl. The bowl is pretty fun really. I didn’t try much initially other than carving and I kept getting in the same ruts. Josh had some good tricks in the shallow and was skating it like a mini. I wussed out of trying the grind on the pool coping. Oh well.Next we went to University of Washington to explore as neither of us have been there. Josh had heard that the ‘red square’ area was good for skating so we asked some people how to get there. The best was when Josh asked an elderly Chinese man where ‘red square’ was. Kinda funny. We found it eventually and it wasn’t as good as we hoped. We were both kinda dieing and after some bad 3 stair ollies we started playing a game of SKATE in the shade. We realized we were right next to the library so we moved away and ended in the sun. It didn’t seem to bother me at first and I Josh fell prey to my amazing flip trick skills. That is a joke. The game went on for awhile. We played another game and the heat was wrecking us. Josh pulled through and banged out some good flippers and won that one. We never managed a tie breaker?!?! Doh.This is where it’s going to get fuzzy. It was like skating with Nate, we cruised around and tried all kinds of stuff. Josh always landing what we were trying at least 5 tries before me. First it was an ollie up a ledge, quick up a two, down the two and off the bench. Next was dropping in on a kicked bank next to some stairs. I don’t remember anything else before we stopped at a Chipotle and got some food. After that we started with a downhill manny pad where we continued the tradition of Josh landing stuff before me. He mannied it and then nose mannied it before I mannied it. After that we cruised down a hill then rode did an idiotic downhill ledge drop run. I didn’t even get the satisfaction of landing it due to a squirrel running right under the last one. Ugh. After that we skated another dropin thing where I slammed on the warmup dropin about halfway down the bank. Great. We eventually both ollied onto the ledge and rolled down it. I was pretty hyped really as it’s a bit gnarly for me. Some more cruising and spot checking went down and we ended up at a brick area with all kinds of two stairs and across the street some 3 stairs. We both ollied up the 3 which took some effort after all that skating. And well, we’re old so it takes effort regardless right? The two stair area weird too. After some dorking I settle on attempting something up a two stair, going around a corner, ollieing up a 3, front 180 down a 2 into a narrow landing, then something off the next 2 if I ever got there. I didn’t. I was really trying a kickflip up a two to start it, but a cop put an end to that. Lame. We pretty much just cruised down and left campus at that point.Last up was a skate plaza in Bellevue that ended up ruling. When we first drove by it looked lame and there were tons of people just standing around. We went and got some drinks then game back and it seemed like a different place.  That place seriously rules.  Josh ripped that place.  Nose mannies everywhere.  Front tailslides on the bank to ledge.  Nose manny up and around the uphill pad with a front 180 out.  Much more.  I was dead tired, but having fun.  I got a manny around the uphill pad.  A front 180 fakie 50 180 on the kicker to banked ledge.  Bad front 50 on the bank to ledge.  Way too many tries for an axle stall revert, then a first try fakie smith fakie stall.  I couldn’t get a manny down the downhill pad.  The last few tricks I got were a back boarslide transfer into the bank, front board transfer then lastly a front board back 180 transfer.  Fun.  Long and awesome day.  The next day was rough though.  Couldn’t even hardly walk.