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Friday, September 2, 2011

Tony Mellick Still Skates

Ty and I got up at 8:30 to go meet Shad and Tyler at the new Northglenn park. Coffee was a must before.

Shad is a smiles and psyched to skate.

Shredding commenced.

Then I took my parents to the airport for their vacation. Later you two, hopefully I don't burn the house down!

After that I cruised to The Shop.

Then a street spot.

Mike did this gap to 50-50 for Lil Wayne. He's a big fan now.

And then we cruised out to Parker for a night session. I mostly went because Tony said he would be there skating. I'm just glad Cory let us skate his home turf.

Here he is! He requested the ender in the web clip so he got it.

Tranny session!

Monday, July 4, 2011

The Piano Man

I met up with Max, Aaron, and Buck at Swift's for some breakfast. They informed me about the new HeyTell phenomenon. Pretty interesting stuff.

After that we cruised over to Buck's, where he played the piano and we both sung great hits like Vienna by Billy Joel and Your Song by Elton John. He's quite talented.

Denver Park with Aaron and Max. Aaron's homemade Kansas City Chiefs shirt was turning heads.

Game of S-K-A-T-E to start things off.

Max got some insane lines here.

Then we went to Auraria to skate. I was in spectator mode.

Max let me wear his hat for a minute.

What to do!?

Mike figured it out and got a really good one. Great job Mikey!

Right after the session ended my homie showed up.

After we were done skating we went to Streets of London/Famous Pizza. Aaron asked me to order an entire pizza for him and Max and bring it over to Streets. While I waited for Aaron's pizza to cook, I ate my own slices.

Aaron and Max were really excited about eating a fresh Famous pizza inside Streets, which houses it's own pizzeria. When Aaron grabbed the condiments from Streets to use on his Famous pizza, the guy came over and told him that if he wanted to eat a pizza from somewhere else he could use their condiments. It was pretty hilarious.

David beat Abdias in pool three times. Face of a champion.

Kehoe bought some rocks that he was pretty proud of.

Skated this school for a couple of minutes.

And then we went to Denver Park to skate with Derek one last time before he moves to Los Angeles.

Sad to see you go Derek.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Mormon Kombat Concluded

The last day of the trip was supposed to be for street skating, but the rain pretty much ruined that.

I thought about checking this out...

But realized that it was super secret and I couldn't even get a tour.

Here's everybody saying goodbye's before we hit the dusty trail.

And here is a photo Ryan took with me in it (far left).

Mike ran into a T-Rex at the gas station.

Subway.

I bought a dozen cookies for the road.

Wind.

Sketchy bathroom in Wyoming.

We made it back to Colorado, where the mountains hang out on the west side. Way better than Utah.

Home! David killed it on the drive.

Going to take a couple days off and heal up this swollen ankle. The trip was the best thing ever and totally worth it though!

Mormon Kombat Part 2

Mike, David, and I shared a room. These two love each other so much they shared a bed, which is a bonus for me because it means I got my own!

I started reading The Waves by Virginia Woolf. This book is different than the other's I've read by her in that most everything is described using soliloquies. Her other works that I have read don't have a lot of characters speaking. The story is about six people dealing with the death of their mutual friend. I suggest picking it up.