Still one of my favorite Simpsons moments ever.  I like soccer and all, but this is straight funny.

An amazing 60 degree day.  Up at my parents with the family in Loveland and Liz, India, Ollie and I took off to a nearby park to mess around.  We had brought a basketball, soccer ball and skateboards for Ollie and I.  Luckily Ollie is a smart kid and wanted to skate.  We messed around in the pavilion for awhile before moving into the park.  The park is crap, but fun once a year I suppose.  It’s a new prefab park, not the good Loveland park.  There was one late 20ish skater there having fun and the three of us all seemed to have a good time.  Ollie dropped in on the ramp and did a rock fakie first try.  He also slammed later on and hung up all the way to flat.  He didn’t complain at all.  So awesome.  He pushed around that park having a blast.  I had a decent time too.  I kept making myself ollie onto/over as much as possible.  Had a little run with a ollie over the flatbar, front rock on the qpipe then ollie onto a taller ledge.  Did a axle to fakie on the q-pipe, fakie smith fakie, bad crooks on the weird ledge with coping, nose mannied the flatbottom of the ramp, noseslid down the pyrmaid.  I didn’t do anything special, but it was a fun session and the weather was awesome.  When we left a shirtless teenager showed up with a huge weed leaf tattoo on his back.  Ha ha, he’s gonna be regretting that one later in life.

Got out of a frustrating day of work early for the Holiday and felt like skating the plastic benches at Bear Creek before leaving for my parents.  It was colder than I thought out, but warming up didn’t take too incredibly long.  Nate took a long time to meet up and I had already gotten front 50s and crooks and remembered why I didn’t like those benches so much.  They are so weird.  I’m not sure how to describe it other than they are weird.  They aren’t tall, just weird.  I managed one fun of front 50 180 out, halfcab flip, front 180 a crack gap then fakie ollie into a mellow mellow bank.   Shortly after this I slammed insanely hard manualling down the bank when my wheel caught in a crack.  Ouch.   Thus the start of my knee not having much skin.Right after that I got a call for work and had to split.  I decided a quick game of SKATE was in order.  It ended up not only being a long game, but an insanely awesome game that had both of us landing tricks like fakie 360 flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip, f/s halfcab flip, etc.  Nate got some goodies like nollie 360 flip, switch flip, switch heelflip, something and a nollie varial flip to win it.  He had SKAT too though off tricks like fakie heelflip, b/s flip and a couple more I can’t remember.  Good game.  Work sucks.