Roller Derby 09

The girls and I are spending the week cramming. Cramming in everything we can into the last week of our summer vacation. And we plan to be busy. On Tuesday we decided to try roller skating. The girls were given skates on their last birthday and have done okay around the kitchen and pool table but today was the day to try it on the slick floor. After going to Avery's picture appt we headed to Yukon and talked about our last trip there that was not so pleasant and involved a canon and cherry pie....but we paid the toll and went to Yukon anyway.

We stopped at McDonalds across the street for a quick lunch. I noticed there were a lot of flies, but its August, the doors are always open and there is food and kids there so I really did not worry about it. But at this McDonalds, I saw a first....a customer walked in with a bag, ordered a coke and sat down, pulled out a paper and a fly swatter....true story. I wonder if I have seen it all now?

Anyway, back to Yukon on Wheels. We got our tickets, I got my skates, which are still brown with orange wheels and went to get a locker. Avery thought that was cool, skates, locker and a special key! The girls did a great job. They hugged the carpet wall for a while, but Reagan left it shortly and really did pretty well. Avery....well some of you have seen Avery ski....think of her on short skis....short skis that do not prevent her from crossing them. She was a mess, the two of us laughed all afternoon. Her once white shorts, are not sort of cream. Reagan fell a couple of times, Avery tripped me once but she takes the cake on wipeouts, hands down.

A parent commented on Avery's style of skating....she runs on her stops/toes for several feet and then coasts....then runs on her stops/toes and coasts....its very, very funny. I had trouble seeing from the tears.

Here are some pictures of the two of them. Notice nothing has changed.....

And just in case you are wondering....There is still a door and hallway that keeps the sunlight from getting in, the carpet is still wild, the place still smells of feet, teeanagers and their cheap cologne, popcorn and that yellow runny stuff they serve with chips. The lights are also the same, in the middle is a big star with different colored lights with disco balls and fun lighting everywhere except the bathroom where you can barely see. They still play limbo, the corner game and end with a couples skate. The same crowd is even still there...the oh so cool looking teenagers that race and weave in and out of the slow skaters, the older people that can not leave the skating scene acting like the oh so cool teeanagers and even the boy playing air guitar on the bench. Seriously. It's a time warp....maybe it has something to do with that heavy door that keeps out the light.

Avery wants to go back tomorrow but my shoulders are so sore from holding the two of them up that we may need to take a break. I know they had fun and it was the best couples skate I can remember. It was a great trip, great to see them try something new, great to play together and great to stop by Sonic happy hour on our way out of that odd little town.

Tomorrow we are going to go for something artistic....a trip to the pottery place, the western heritage museum and maybe the zoo. Oh and to get the pictures that we forgot to pick up after our Daisy meeting. They are great pictures, coming to mailbox near you shortly.

The camera batteries just died as I tried to load the pics....I will put them up tomorrow. Hopefully they will be woth the wait. I have not even looked at them.