monday night we went down to fairmont park to see a skating competition. fairmont park is just north of i-80, right on the border of sugarhouse and sugarhood, which isn't much of a hood. salt lake doesn't really have a hood, unless you're from holladay or sandy, and then you think everywhere northwest is hood. this would explain why i have friends who fear liberty park, and surely wouldn't be caught dead at fairmont, least of all with this crowd. we loved it. josh starts reminiscing about the good ol' days in miami where he was the only white kid around, but could still shoot hoops with the best of them. all the smoke and black flag t-shirts take me back to my days of watching indy bands, which all began because i had a thing for a drummer who ended up dating my sister. and then a bass player who had a thing for me but also a girlfriend, and then a guitar player that actually went my way. but back to skating...these kids were amazing, and some old men also. one guy i swear was bill gates jr. the wavy brown hair, the glasses, and the nerdy white-boy look--only wearing a helmet and dropping into a pit, instead of making millions and starting foundations with melinda. yep--that's him...
joshua loved it, and was very disappointed to learn that his dad can't do any tricks, and actually ate it pretty bad the one time he was on a half pipe. joshua decided he wants to learn, but when josh told him the skate park is pretty tough, joshua said--"that's alright dad, we'll go home and PRACTICE, and then come here." my one complaint is that in the hour or so we were there, my two sweet, innocent, sheltered children must have heard the f-bomb a few hundred times. luckily it means nothing to them, and they don't notice. but when we got in the car josh and i had to laugh. "well boys, at least now you know what the f in fhe stands for." we thought it was a great family night, if a little unconventional...
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I loved seeing the photos of your boys. I'm looking forward to keeping in better touch through our blogs.
that's awesome! we have a skate park by our house that we go to a lot. i got super into it the summer before we got married and feel like that was the one dream that got away. i started too late to get really good. in fact, this last christmas i thought i would still have it and jumped on the half pipe. i ended up wearing a sling for a month and my mom had to fly out to help with the girls. i'm not allowed on the half pipe anymore.
oops, i was signed in on dave's account--that was brooke, though.
i was wondering about "heavymetalmouth"...you know i've never tried much skating, but josh said even just skating a half pipe is way harder than it looks. it sure looks cool--defying gravity.
and brooklyn and beka--these are the same two b's that were roommates before dc. two beautiful women and now fabulous moms. random connection.
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