Father’s Day, and Dad gets a skateboard!

   This seems to be the year for athletic equipment. First, Adam gets a bike from the club, then Aaron gets a skateboard for his birthday, then Cyndi present Eddie with a skateboard for Father’s Day. I really did want one, because I kept borrowing Aaron’s around the driveway in order to try and learn some of the stuff he is trying to learn and Cyndi must have read my mind.
   Father’s Day started out with breakfast for Dad: eggs, bacon, toast and chocolate milk. Then, off to church for 10am service, where Eddie ran the sound console. Then step outside for lunch at the Strawberry Festival: sloppy joes, chili dogs, nachos and cheese, strawberry smoothies, and a strawberry tart to go. Once at home, Eddie took a well needed nap, not quite having recovered from a late night watching the Spurs take their fourth NBA championship and an early morning taking Adam to another bike race. Up from the nap, make a few phone calls to relatives(all of them fathers, of course), then invite Aaron to go skateboarding, which Aaron accepted. Sometimes Aaron is funny that way, not quite sure he really wants to go somewhere, but usually glad he went.
   We found a nice skate park in one of the big parks around here called a Metropark. It is a large park, miles of roadway, bike paths, a lake, paddle boats, a swimming pool, a pavillion for concerts, etc. There is a loop there where Adam and Eddie rode their first competitive time trial back in April, and it was then that Eddie noticed signs for a skatepark.
   Last week, Adam had a practice time trial there, and Eddie brought both Arianna and Aaron and tried to juggle biking, skateboarding and babysitting, which worked out for the kids, but it didn’t quite work out for Eddie. So today, for Father’s Day, he wanted to take just Aaron and spend time with him and the boards. It turns out that no one else was at the skate park, so we had it all to ourselves for a couple of hours. We practiced ramps and and spent a lot of time in the halfpipe skating backwards and trying what are called 180s. At the top of the pipe(well, we never made all the way to the top yet), you try and spin around 180 degrees on your backwheels and head to the other side of the pipe. I got a pretty good picture of Aaron just about finishing a 180. You can see his front wheels in the air, his body has already twisted around, and he is about to land his front wheels and shoot to the other side. Someday, I would love a picture of him doing this at the top of the pipe, but we need a lot more practice dropping in from way up there; neither of us can do it yet.
   There are no pictures of Eddie yet, but he can do about five or six 180s back to back, and is trying to do them higher and higher up the pipe. Tonight, he is nursing a sore back, sore elbow, and even one sore toe(I think the board must have hit it during one of his many falls)! Both of us wear helmets and knee pads. We both had a great time sharing this for Father’s Day.

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