I’d been fighting a bad cold all week. Ugh. Started Saturday off by standing for two hours in the cold rain watching Ollie’s flag football game. It was fun though. Ollie got his first interception and his first touchdown. After some food and napping and the weather clearing up I went to meet up with Dean, Carleigh, Jack, Blaine and Conor at Red Curbs. Luckily I was late as apparently a cop had decided to make an example of them and wrote a $250 trespassing ticket. Ugh, that is one of Boulder’s best spots and so needed in bad weather. We went to the school way out on Arapahoe instead. I thought Carleigh had left to get ready for her sushi party, but it turns out she had still wanted to skate. Doh, sorry Carleigh. The crew at this point was Blaine, Jack, Dean and I. It was fun. Dean first. He did a gap out to axle stall like I had fun doing a couple weeks ago, ollied up the 3 stairs in a row (so hard for us tall folks, well at least for me), some manuals and ollied off the bigger drop. Blaine seemed to be more in chill mode and was kinda just messing around, but having fun. Jack was you know, ripping. He even did some nose manuals. Hippy jump a rail. Manual up all three stairs. It’s hard to remember all what he did at this point. It was rad to see as I haven’t seen him in a bit. I shaked off some rust and had a great session for me. Got a manual off the small drop then kickflip off the curb, manual the bigger drop, kickflip up, front 180 off the drop, ollied up the bigger ledge (super hyped on that) and had a blast. After awhile we went to the back of the school where Dean almost got a sick nosepick and I ollied (if scraping your tail counts) off the big two. It’s been awhile since I’ve ollied off anything that tall and it felt good. Jack, Dean and I went on to play a game of SKATE that I somehow won. Only because Jack was kind enough to not do switch and nollie tricks. It was my first game of SKATE since before the arthritis started and it was even funner then I remember. Nice kickflip Dean and thanks for playing old guy rules Jack. After that we went over to Carleigh’s and watched skate videos. It was fun.

BAD ASS CHICK OF THE MONTH (in the kitchen).

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