Wednesday Night Skate Blog

In a group as large as the Wednesday Night Skate, we end up celebrating quite a few birthdays. Sometimes, we’re lucky enough to have a particular member’s birthday fall on a Wednesday, and at the bare minimum we’ll celebrate (and embarrass) that person by singing them “Happy Birthday” at some point during the skate.

On September 9th, a young lady had a birthday, and had a special request for a route: she wanted to go to the South Street Seaport. While we had done that route quite a bit this year, we couldn’t say no to the request, and took the group down the Westside Path, through the Atrium (where we paused to sing to her) and across through Chinatown and Little Italy.

After leaving Little Italy, we headed up to Astor Place. We had a little bit of extra time on our hands, having only skated for about an hour and a half, so we headed to the always-smooth streets of St. Mark’s Place, and then to Thompkins Square Park.

Afterwards, we headed back to the bar, where the real celebration began – with lots of booze and mingling, skater style.