Our new friend Shaundra invited us to go skating with her at Skateland in Olympia. I haven't been there in at least two decades. The place reeks of 70's and a remodel. I can't believe how run down the place is. We arrived at 6:30 and there was a private party going on and we headed on inside so we weren't standing in the cold for a half hour. The guy was nice and didn't ask. I used the bathroom and we waited til 7. Shaundra arrived about 10-15 minutes later so we had to go outside at that point. We stood in the line. While standing, we found out there were two birthday parties starting at 7 during the free skate time. Lots of kids between 8-17 were waiting to get in. I was so glad I brought my rollerblades.
We paid, got our hand stamped and we were on our way. Shaundra used to skate a lot growing up and she was a bit rusty.
Derek on the other hand, hadn't skated all that much and he told us not to laugh at him.
None of us did too bad except when Shaundra slipped in an area where the roof had leaked from all the rain. She had someone promptly clean it up. We skated most of the 2 hours we were there. We did the hokey pokey, speed skate, laughed at some of the crazy kids and people watched. It was fun, relatively cheap and was a good way to spend a rainy night. I'd do it again.
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