For those of you that have met my wife Liz you already know that she is the greatest woman of all time.  Ok, well, she’s my wife and I love her dearly.  She’s been playing the guitar for awhile now and started piecing together a song.  A few weeks later here we are with her first song called ‘Oh My Bones’.  Click HERE for the link to the mp3.  I dig it.

The kids were staying over at a friends so Liz and I decided to go to this show.  After eating some good BBQ with TF and watching the Nuggets win we headed to Denver with Carleigh.  We got into the show about the time the opening band Cannon started.  They ended up being really good.  They were pretty heavy indie rock at times, somewhat metal at other times.  Next up was Lion Sized which was the only band I had seen before.  I liked them a lot the first time I saw them, but this time they kinda let me down.  The music is a lot like Hot Snakes, but it just didn’t do it for any of us this time.The headlining band was called Tauntaun.  We had never heard of them. We figured if they sucked or were even just mediocre we’d leave so we could get to sleep early.   They started the show by cranking the fog machine up so much that Liz left the front room.  Ha.  Within the first song it was pretty clear that they were awesome.  Really awesome.  I don’t like much metal, but this was incredible.  It reminded me of classic metal.  Sabbath, Maiden, Priest and Motorhead with a bit of grunge thrown in to make it completely incredible.  It was so good that Liz liked it, and she hates most metal.  It was also so good that I bought a Tauntaun t-shirt and record.  Check them out, they rule.

I took a few runs on Rampy while waiting around to see what was developing for the day.  Luckily it hadn’t start snowing yet.  I didn’t do anything too great, but I was having fun.  After meeting Jack and Carleigh at Meta we went to Willville.  We messed around on the bank with the grate.  Well, but mess around I mean Jack did all kinds of ollies into it and Caleigh and I just dropped in on it.  While Jack was warming up on the six stair ledge I a run of front 50 on the ledge, kickflip on flat then ollie onto the ledge and roll into the bank.  I kept being totally lame on the roll in into the bank, but eventually got it when we got the boot.Next up we went to a big gap where Jack not only broke his board trying to back 3 the gap, but broke mine too.  I was kinda hyped though because I wanted to setup a new board before SF and I didn’t have to make up no silly excuses.  The board was broke!  After a board setup party Jack, Carleigh and I skated Rampy.  It was a fun session for awhile, but then it seemed everyone got tired at the same time.  Carleigh was getting front D’s everytime, Jack was doing 5-0’s to fake fakie revert, I landed the majority of my tricks except front feeble and hurricane.  The session ended when Jack did a front 5-0 shove out.  Sick.  It’s snowing again.  SUCK!

Tired from a fun show the night before and being a dad of a girl in 4H club I met up with Nate and Carleigh at the Mikes Camera manny pad.  I started off pretty good with some mannys and nose mannys first try.  But I wasn’t feeling too on my game and I was solo for awhile.  I did a few ollies over snow and whatnot and started feeling better.  Nate showed up right as I gapped over some snow to manny.  I looked cool for a second.  Ha.  It was rad, Nate was hungover.  He said he drank a ton of beers the night before.  That a boy Nate!  Carleigh showed up after awhile too.  Nate quickly proved that he is younger and did some neat tricks.  Front 180 nose manual.  Nollie front 180 nose manny.  He’s good.  Carleigh hasn’t spent much time trying mannys before.  She never quite got one, but she definitely seemed to get the hang of how to manual by the end of the session.  She was also landing kickflips pretty much every try.  Good ones too.  We skated for about an hour total.  Nate did some pretty crazy stuff like fakie manual, half cab nose manual, and quite a bit more that I can’t remember right now.  He came close to fakie manual fakie 3 shove out.  Ridiculous.  He also got most of his flippers back on the bigger board.  I saw perfect tres and nollie b/s heels go down.  Sick.  I didn’t really skate all that hot, but I did a few things I was proud of.  Kickflip manny which took a ton of tries and my first ever fakie bigspin manual.  I’d be more hyped, but I did it so bad.  I landed at 90 and lost all my speed, but somehow managed to manny all the way to the end.  Argh.  I also did a 360 flip up the curb (easier then varial flip up) and a line with a fast nose manual followed by a nollie treflip on flat.  All in all a pretty fun session.