Suzanne has wanted milkshakes since Wednesday but decided not to actually get one until after work on Friday. She asked me if I've every been to Daddy O's and I said no. I've been there with Lindsay many years ago but never actually got any food. She also asked if that would be something we could do for dinner. I said sure. I would have to ask Ben what he would like. We all basically got the burger, fries and I decided not to get a milkshake like they both did. It would have made me more full than I would have been. I just stuck with the food and had a drink.
We got to my house and cleared off the table, got some plates and silverware and of course some ketchup for our fries. We ate our food and chatted about random things. Suzanne was really excited to go roller skating. I guess she hasn't been skating since she was in high school. She seemed apprehensive about it as well. She didn't let it psych her out.
I was sad that we were only going to have a few people come out with us. I was hoping for at least 6 or 7 of us. Sadly we didn't give people enough time to plan and some people didn't check the Facebook group to find out. I guess it was just me, Ben, Suzanne and Nicole, who was going to meet us at the rink.
We paid for a 2 hour block from 7 to 9. Ben and I brought our own rollerblades mostly because we had them and I could not skate in roller skates to save my life. The wheel placement for me would have been a disaster considering that I've been rollerblading most of my life. I paid admission for everyone since Suzanne bought everyone dinner earlier. She stood in line for roller skates while Ben and I put our blades on. Nicole arrived shortly after. Last time we skated, which was a couple of Decembers ago, Nicole was hilarious to watch. This time she was just as funny.
Hugging the wall, shuffle skating and some bobbing in and out of the crowd were just some of Nicole's sweet moves. I tried to skate with her a few laps just so she wasn't by herself the entire time. Suzanne definitely has skated before. At first she had to acclimate herself to the wheels but she was basically a pro after a few laps. I skated with her a few laps as well. We really didn't participate in the games such as red light green light, speed skating and musical corners.
There were tons of kids at all skill levels and many adults hugging the walls and some that could be figure skaters. We even saw a teenaged girl who looked straight out of the 80's. She was wearing acid wash jeans that went above her belly button and a really tight midriff shirt. Her make up even looked from that decade. And then we saw the guy in the dress. At first we thought it was a really ugly woman but upon further glances it was a dude. He hung out with other questionable looking people over in the corner of the building. They were probably students at Evergreen.
We used the rest of our time skating laps just to get our money's worth. You could tell everyone was getting tired from the long day at work. Del was going to meet Nicole at her house around 9:30 so around 8:50 she and Suzanne started taking their skates off. Ben and I skated a few more laps just goofing around.
We took our skates off, took a group picture and we all parted ways. Suzanne came back to our house because she carpooled with us. We thanked her for going with us. She headed back home, we got a shower in because I was sweaty. I watched a few episodes of Bones while Ben played his Xbox game with his friend Josh. I passed out sometime around 1ish.
A few weeks later I received some new wheels for my rollerblades. They were getting pretty worn out after 14 years. Wow! Has it really been 14 years?
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