Last Sunday was Halloween, and since I couldn’t make it to Brian and Eliz’s Halloween kegger (tear), I decided to pick up my skates and hit the streets with Rory and about 100 other Londoners, most of whom were decked out in full-on Halloweeeen costume. It was the first time I’ve gone on a real skate in years. After about 60 seconds with wheels back on my feet, I felt right back at home in my K2’s, and utterly ecstatic about skating again.
About 5 minutes before heading out to Hyde Park, Rory and I assembled our brilliant costumes: creeepy fleshless skeletons! The base of our costume consisted of whatever we had that was black, and the bones we “fashioned” out of masking tape. And huzzah: you have 2 skeletons on wheels!
The Rollerstroll people really have their shit together. They had a man with amazing calves on an incumbent bike pulling a giant stereo that pumped out some party beats with a Halloween twist. You could really feel the energy when Ghostbusters came on, and would you believe it, they even played Prince!
I still love skating more than any other sport I’ve tried. The skate was invigorating, partially because it was dark and my reflexes were on overdrive trying to avoid tripping on a storm grate or piling on top of the frankenstein in front of me who had no peripheral vision. But what made it truly marvelous was the feeling of movement. We passed by some amazing sites on the way: Buckingham Palace, Parliament, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, all lit up and brilliant under the dark sky.
And because it’s London, and London is just cool like that, the skate ended approapriately: at the pub!
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