Today Kara drove me to Yakima and I got a longboard!!! It's oh so fantastic!
The top is just plain black griptape. I was sort of hoping for what Kara has, which is a clear-ish griptape, so it shows the wood instead of just black. But this is nice because when it gets dirty it won't be so noticeable!
I can't wait to go try it out more tomorrow. We went to the Greenway in Yakima, which is just a nice paved trail along the river. But it started out with a deceivingly steep hill. We thought it wasn't that steep, it looked like a nice gentle downhill to start off, but Kara went down first and got going too fast and fell pretty bad. So we went to the hospital back in Ellensburg. No broken bones or anything, just some pretty bad scrapes. So I haven't had much of a chance to try it out yet. Although tomorrow Rose and Nathan and I are going to go boarding so I'll have a better feel of it tomorrow!
After Kara fell, I was thinking about how shocking it is that I've never been seriously injured. I mean, in all my years of skiing (most of the time recklessly and out of control) and my years of playing soccer and just being active in general, all I've had is a fractured elbow and a bruise from being kicked by a horse in the thigh. Nothing major, nothing emergency room worthy, nothing that's involved leaving skin on pavement, or bloodstains on pavement. I don't know how I've gotten that lucky. Let's hope I stay that lucky!
I'm off to bed early tonight. I've hardly been able to sleep the last few nights. Restless Leg Syndrome kept me up most of the night last night. That, and the fact that Loren scared me so bad I was afraid I was going to have nightmares.
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