Go Skateboarding Day is in the bag for 2013 (yeah we know it was a week ago) and the crew jumped in the van to check out the new Port Orchard Skatepark. This park is another brand new Grindline gem that makes living in the Pacific North West even better. We had a great time there and as usual didn’t film enough to make a decent video. It was pretty crowded with bikes, scooters and amazingly there were some skateboarders there too. Spitfire pros, the local Welcome crew, and other PNW rippers were on hand. Thrasher filmers and photographers got some photos of some of us standing around.
After we had our fill of bike/scooter kid dodging we went to Bainbridge Island and had a blast there for the rest of the day. One of Grindline‘s oldest parks. The juxtaposition of new and old were not lost on us and we are a blessed bunch to have all of these spots. We skated with the locals, Welcome crew, and a bunch of Seattle heads were there too.
We don’t really need and excuse to skate but we used GSD to our advantage!
This weekend was so much fun that we forgot to take any photos or video of our trip out to Port Angeles to skate the really fun skatepark there. It was a super beautiful day and three of us set out to go and skate for the day. For the first part of our day involved an early start to catch the ferry at Edmonds and once we got to the park and some leg stretching Mikhel, Ritchie and myself had a blast skating the park mostly buy ourselves. That park is so very fun that we mostly skated with hardly a break from morning into the afternoon. Skating with friends one of the best things ever.
We then drove to Bainbridge Island to skate the park there and got to skate and hang out with our Oh My Back originator and good friend Andy Caro who hadn’t been skating for months with, of all things, a bad back. It was great to see him skate and we had a good time there. Especially after the shade covered the deep end and our northwestern sun shy selves really started to enjoy ourselves. Burritos and beers to follow and that was our Saturday.
Sunday was Cinco De Margo day which has become an annual event at the Marginal Way Skatepark with tacos, beer, skating and music. It was great to have most of the Oh My Back crew in attendance and skate and witness the absolute ripping going on. It was a great turnout with some surprising out of town visitors as well.
It was an awesome weekend and it was fun to get out and skate with all of our friends. Next time we go on a trip we will try and remember to take a break and snap some photos and do some video gathering. Skating is too much fun sometimes.
A good friend wrote a song which contained the phrase, “Life gets in the way” and sometimes I think about it and how it applies to my own life.
In the simple quest to skate more and stress less some obstacles that are normal parts of life complicate things. Work, projects, family, taxes, and cars etc. all conspire to keep me from skating. Some things like family are most important and other things like taxes and work, a means to an end to be sure, seem to be colossal wastes of time. Maybe the winter darkness contributes to the sense of not enough time. Maybe it’s age.
The days, however, grow longer and along with that will come more skating and more of my world will feel a bit less confined. Summertime is calling and daylight until 10 will arrive. I can’t wait.
