(Slightly long post--sorry!)Monday night Harry Jack was invited to his first skating party, held at our local skating rink. You locals know where I am talking about.
Not exactly my favorite party place. Definitely not the place to drop my little boy off for a party and then leave. Nope! I stayed. Stayed the whole time and organized my coupons, keeping a close eye on my boy.
You see, when there are STILL grown adults decked out in their original "80's attire, be'boppin around the rink--first in line for the limbo, somethings not quite right. I found myself saying, "are you kidding me???" one too many times!
This place has been around FOREVER. Seriously, when I was a little girl, on Monday nights this place had "Christian Skates." You know--they played all Christian Music--Amy Grant, Michael English, Sandi Patty--you get the picture.
Anyway, on Monday nights my father would load all of girls up and take us skating for a few hours, with one stipulation. We had to have made a 100% the previous Friday's spelling test. Wow, talk about some stress!!! This was big time back then and we didn't want to miss it.
Oh the memories this place. There was one night when I left this place in tears. I was crying in the back seat of our blue station wagon because my father caught me trying to "couple skate" with Nick K...or was it Eric H???
I don't know what I was thinking. Hmm...couples skate...lights off with the disco ball spinning...Daddy sitting on the side of the rink watching his 5 little girls...and I thought I could skate by him without him seeing?????? I was a slow learner...
Okay back to the real reason I started to post about this place. It has had a few makeover's in the past 37 plus years of it's existence, but it is still stereotyped in my mind. Sorry _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _!
Below are some funny pictures of Harry Jack trying to skate. His boy CRACKED me up! He seriously is a funny kid! It was his first time on skates.
I caught these on my cell phone and for memory sake, I thought I would share them with all of you!
One of MANY hilarious faces!!!
He finally made it to the middle of the floor and...
...fell...
...so he crawled back to the wall and tried again.Harry Jack and I had a good time together Monday night. It was just the two of us, something that is rare in our big family!
