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Rollerskating - A Fun Pastime

by Julie on January 5th, 2008

Oh how I remember how roller skating was THE Friday thing to do - the 80’s were great weren’t they?

Well, for my daughter’s birthday, our of nowhere, she decided to wanted a roller skating birthday. I knew that had recently torn down one roller skating rink in our town and I couldn’t even remember if there was another one. Come to find out, there was one so that’s where we had here party. I found out several things by having her party there:

• A lot of kids do not know how to skate! What a shame. :)
•  Teenagers still love to hang out there on the weekends.
• I still know how to roller skate. Go figure!
• My kids LOVE to roller skate.

We had so much fun at her party and with my kids pestering me, I finally got out on the rink. I just knew I was going to fall and completely embarrass myself, but I actually still knew how to skate. It felt like I never took a 15 year break, lol!

Almost everyone at the party had a really good time. (One mom wouldn’t let her little girl skate and she was so sad. She just knew her little girl was going to break a bone or something. I just felt awful for her.) My kids all found out that they are pretty good skaters and now that’s all they want to do.

The great thing about taking the kids roller skating is…it’s cheap! The other great thing..it’s awesome exercise for them and me. I say we need to bring roller skating back! I’m talking new roller skating rinks with new roller skates. I imagine most of the rinks are the same as the one we went too. You know - carpet on the walls and roller skates from the 70’s and 80’s. Yuck.

My kids are asking to go there this weekend. It’s so gorgeous outside though and I would like to save that for a day it’s raining or freezing cold.

So, what about you? Do you still go roller skating?

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