After a nice relaxed morning in the hot tub, some bowling and ice cream Ollie and I headed to the mostly dry Estes Park Skatepark.  I started off mostly just wishing the puddles weren’t there so I moved most of the ice that was built up.  Took about 10 minutes and most of it dried by the end of the session.  Ollie was cruising around having a blast.  He was dropping in on the 4 foot quarter pipe and manualling across the flat of the table top.  After having some troubles getting used to the non-Rampy coping I finally start being able to do grinds on the coping.  I started feeling good after a run with an ollie on the little pump bump, frontside ollie well under coping on the quarter pipe and a front 50 on the smaller q-pipe.  Then I tried a run with ollie onto the table top, kickturn and a flatground 360 flip and somehow pieced it together first try.  I also got a back 50 on the tall q-pipe first try.  I need to skate more bigger tranny, it’s kinda fun.  Next was an attempt at another line of ollie onto the table top, b/s tough guy on the quarterpipe, front tail on the 3 foot q-pipe, nollie tre.  I never got the front tail though even though I would get in almost every time.  So frustrating.  Ollie was ripping.  Rock fakies on the 3′ and then out of nowhere manualled almost the entire pump bump.  So smooth like too.  He also got a willy grind on the 3′, b/s ollie on the flat bank, numerous manuals across the table tops and smiled the whole time.  After awhile the puddle in front of the flat bank to ledge dried up and I was unsuccessful at getting a back 50 on it.  Ugh.  I closed out the session by taking forever to land a f/s halfcab flip and slamming while trying to ollie the flatbar.  Not sure how I had so much fun, but I did.

Jason picked me up on a somewhat cold day and we went and picked up Nate then headed to the Louisville skatepark to meet Neil and skate.  I was in a pretty good mood and feeling somewhat flexible for how early in the day it was and all.  We started in the snake run and a couple runs in I slammed pretty good because a back 50 came to a halt and I got tossed to the flat.  Fun.  We moved around all skating the park our own ways.  Jason never seemed to really warm up and Neil took a few unmotivated runs between complaining.  Nate was skating decent.  He got a long back nosegrind popout amongst other good stuff.  I got crooks pretty early on which felt great.  Jason tried a bunch too, but can’t get the popout.  I tried a bunch of front 5-0 shoves and never got them.  I managed a back 5-0 front 180 out on the little ledge, but it was weak sauce because I came to a halt before doing the 180.  Oh well.  I was skating hard, but in retrospect I didn’t land much.  I got a few slow 360 flips, but couldn’t get bigflips on the bank, back 50s, kick back 50s, front 5-0 shoves, etc.  Shortly before having to head home Zak from Nebraska showed up.  He Joined Jason and I in a bank to ledge session.  Jason probably put down the most, but none of us were landing much.  I got a front smith, front tail and a kick back 50 lunch break.  Jason had some good back tails and Zak was hyped to skate something different than he’s used to.  Good sessoin before the Griswalds hit Estes Park.