disco skating is not for me

There is a place in Salt Lake called Classic Fun Center. At the center, they have bounce houses, laser tag, but most importantly, roller staking. They have a huge rink that is always available for open skate, but on Friday nights and Saturday nights, they have disco skate. Disco skate starts at 9pm and is where tons and tons of high school students and the occasional college students and parents go skating in fun outfits with friends to 80's music. I have been once before with friends and it was pretty rough, to say the least. It was one of the most fun nights of my life, but I was absolutely terrible at skating. I had never been skating before, so I took one practice lap holding on to my friends' hands, and then I went to the big rink with probably 100 kids in it. Surprisingly enough, I only fell once because some girl I did not know fell down right in front of me, and I tried to swerve to avoid her. It was very difficult to get the hang of stopping, too. My friends showed me how to put your toe down to rub against the ground, but when I tried, I fell yet again. However, as the night went on, I was able to skate on my own, and I even was able to pass people and skate in between people making a tunnel with their arms. It was a great night, but it was about a year ago, so when my friends asked if I wanted to go last weekend, I could not say no.

It was to celebrate my friend's birthday, so before we left, we got dressed and hung out at her house. We ate pizza and opened presents for a while before we left. After we got ready, we blasted music in the car on the way down to disco skate. When we arrived, we got our tickets and got on our skates. I started warming up by going from friend to friend and holding their hands until I got the hang of it. This time, I thought that I was going to be able to do really well and skate on my own without falling, but as the night went on, I realized that I was not going to be a professional roller skater after only going once. I tried going through the tunnel of people again, and the first time I did fine. The second time, however, there were people in front of me that were being very slow and we were all trapped under the tunnel of people, so there was a huge pile of people that fell, but I still got up and continued skating. As the night went on, I skated with my friends in groups and skating alone at times. When one of my friends came over to me, she grabbed my hand and pulled me very quickly around a corner, so fast that I fell backward and basically did a death drop onto my skate. It was rough, but after, I went and played laser tag with my friends against some random guys from another school. Besides all the falling, it was an incredible night with my best friends.

We love disco!