Roller Skating
Hello to all.
Xavier's school held a fund raiser at a local rollerskating rink last night. The school uses the skating rink several times a year for such purposes; it even gives discounted rates over the summer to students interested in skating during off-school months.
Last year Xavier was not interested in skating at all until the very end of the night, after the skate rental closed.
This year, he wanted to skate and he did not want to wait to the end of the night to start. He wanted to skate as soon as we got there.
The skates they had for first-timers his size fit over his shoes (just barely). We got him fitted up, strapped in, then found a walker for him to use.
Well, there was a complication. Xavier did not want to skate alone (even though many of his classmates were zipping by). He wanted Daddy to skate with him.
Daddy has not been on roller skates since the early seventies. That did not matter to Xavier, so off to the rental window we went.
Unfortunately for Daddy, they did not have an adult sized walker, so the three foot "crash wall" was my walker.
Xavier, however, skated around the rink quite well, only falling two or three times. He made several rounds then wanted to play some arcade games. He remembered playing the games last year (instead of skating), and the selection of games did not change in twelve months.
We ended the night shooting dinosaurs running amok in some Jurassic Park setting.