Love Hurts

It had been a slightly difficult day but I had a sk8 d8 in the evening and I was trying hard not to miss it.

As it turned out I was a tad late and asked my escort to meet me a non predetermined location to save a few minutes and as it was we still arrived in Bangor just about on time.

Sunday night is adult night and the rink was far less busy than when we had gone before on Saturday night. Plus, the music was better and it's nice not to be the oldest person there... sigh. So I was pretty excited to trip the lights fantastic in my new skates. I had been doing all sorts of stunning tricks in my kitchen but getting out there in the much bigger rink, where people are skating at Mock 1 sure can be intimidating. Oh, and I am way out of shape...

These new skates are so much different than the old ones. I have never had boots like these. They are very thick, no flexibility at all and full of padding- which would be great except for there is no padding in the exact three places where I apparently needed it the most... luckily Heidi had a blister band-aid (I h8 the word blister) and I had an extra pair of socks so I managed to recover from my injuries.

Even though this just my second time skating in 10 years or so I am so disappointed in my pathetic abilities. Last night there was a guy in RENTAL SKATES that was skating really, really well. He was swerving in and out of the crowd and spinning around from front to back and I kept watching him frustrated because I used to be able to do that stuff! I wanted so bad to skate myself over to the guy and ask him to slow down and skate with me- I know I can do those moves, I just move a lot, lot slower- but I am way too shy to ever go make chit chat with a stranger like that so instead I spent a good amount of time alongside the walls practicing turning around and around and around and a few other pieces of foot work that used to be so simple.

I know I will get better- I know the skates will get broken in, and I know that Heidi is up to going just as often as we possibly can - now if the free skating coupons on Tony's pizza boxes would hold out, well I might get as good as the guy on the rental skates!

Oh and I should mention, that once again I did not fall down, at least while I had my skates on- it was after I put my shoes on and we were leaving that I tripped and nearly face planted in the lobby. That would have been hysterical. Not. LOL